A Quotes
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“A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.”
Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.”
Source: Sammlung
“A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides”
Source: Emily Dickinson
“A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”
“A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.”
“A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.”
“A narrow-minded man can lead one to devalue others, and in the end, to desperately dangerous hates of outsiders, ranging in expression from discrimination against minorities to world conflagrations,' Tolman wrote. The solution? Create broader cognitive maps in the mind that encompass bigger geographical boundaries and a wider social scope, embracing those we might consider others, and in this way encourage empathy and understanding.”
Source: The Genius of Birds
“A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.”
Source: Housekeeping: A Novel
“A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.”
“A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.”
“A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.”
“A nascent part of you is brimming
with possibility and seeks realization.”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.”
Source: The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day
“A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.”
Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“A nasty virus for a nasty President.”
“A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.”
“A nation advances in proportion to reason and compassion.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.”
“A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.”
“A nation becomes undeveloped as the result of corruption and lack of educational development.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.”
“A nation built from the flames of another mustn't last long”
“A nation built on ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ cannot long survive when its people are taught that no truth is self-evident at all.”
Source: An America Restored: My Reflections on the Second Founding
“A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God”
Source: The Religions of Man
“A nation can be born in a day. The day righteousness is granted access and corruption is banned.”
“A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.”
“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”
“A nation can run without government, but it can't run without the accountability of its citizens.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Source: A Pillar of Iron
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”
“A nation can’t rise if its people are emotionally buried.”
“A nation can't get strong on political pablum.”
“A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner
“A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.”
“A nation could be full of great potentials and yet be poor and underdeveloped if those potentials are not recognized and harnessed to build that nation. Hence, we have poor nations, potentially great people.”
“A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.”
“A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.”
“A nation disappears first in its stories, long before it disappears from the map.”
Source: The Maldives We Remember: A Visual History of a Vanishing World
“A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.”
Source: Where Memories Go
“A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.”
“A nation does not starve because it lacks food, but because power forgets who it is meant to serve.”
“A nation falls not because of governmental atrocity, but because of the citizens' indifference to that atrocity.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”
Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author
“A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.”