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«Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Punctuality
| Keywords:
cardinal, Cardinals, cardinal virtue, Cardinal virtues, insist, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, The Cardinals
«Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
herding, insist, sheep
«The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.»
Author: Frederic Raphael
| Keywords:
coincide, coincides, custodian, custodians, insist, interpreters, The Party
«Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.»
Author: John Huston
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
actress, inferiority, inferiority complex, insist, noses, screw, The Actress, twist
«The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.»
«Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.»
«The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
coming, insist, insisted, of course, open-minded, Open Mind
«The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, feeding, feed upon, forced, gifts, ignore, insist, learns, lessons, mental, mental process, natural process, tyrants
«The texts of India insist on the value of actual practice and the need to confirm the truths by experiencing their impact.»
«There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.»
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