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«A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| About:
Character,
Power,
Purpose,
Relationships,
Thought,
Understanding
| Keywords:
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«Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.»
Author: Dean Koontz
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«Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live»
«An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.»
«Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| About:
Conscience,
Influence,
Mankind,
Work
| Keywords:
carry on, exert, peculiarly
«Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Doing Your Best
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«A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.»
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