| ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. -- Harry F. Banks |
| Author:
Banks, Harry F.Era:
1950 |
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| Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter |
| Author:
Peter, Laurence J.Era:
1919 |
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