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«The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, congress, discovers, republic, The American
«The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.»
Author: Bern Williams
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«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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Quotations
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«Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.»
«The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.»
Author: Stephen Neill
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Teachers and teaching
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discovers, follower, followers, gifts, impart, imparting, imparts, influence, inspiration, liberates, natural, pupils, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, stimulating, The Men, The Natural, twice
«The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
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cover, discovers, inherent, learns, psychological, strict, stricter, strictest, their own language, The Goal, unveil, unveiled, unveiling, unveils
«Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Adversity,
Virtue
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adversity, discovers, prosperity, vice
«The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.»
«There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving-by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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discovers, formula, method, paying, paying attention, thereby
«The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
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