- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eminent Quotes
Reflections on distinction, reputation, and hard-won standing.
These eminent quotes look at what it costs to become distinguished, from a first novel rejected by eminent publishers to the "time, watching, hunger" it takes to reach an eminent degree in learning. It's less about fame and more about earned standing. Readers exploring reputation may also like our Great quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
- Conspiracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.
- Aim
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020