- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
- Nov 07, 2020
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
- Economic Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
- Conferred
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- Nov 07, 2020
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
- Delay
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020