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“The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.”

May Used Poetry Term Simple Subjects Involved Mathematics Nine Rhythm Consideration Ethical Verses Rhyme Convenient Meter Pedantry

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.”

“The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.”

Men Stills Form Marriage Return Discipline Civilization Thousand Female Institutions Rewards Males Patterns Variety Consideration Strain Spontaneity Receptivity

Author:Margaret Mead

“Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.”

Knows Feels Humans Stories Pain Joy Left Interest Animal Doubt Shadow Deserve And Love Consideration Daydreaming Human Animal Love Pain

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.”

Humans Creatures Treats Consideration

Author:Sai Baba

“If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.”

Ifs Giving States United United States Alive Society Effects Students Philosophical Rewards Bother Budgets Consideration Senate Allocation

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.”

People Men Persons Kindness Treats Height Folly Consideration Decency Mistreat

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.”

“There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.”

People May Feelings Certain Humanity Nature Justice Animal Kindness Tree Duty Creatures Plant Obligation Consideration Mutual Intercourse Benevolence Susceptible

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .”

World Consciousness Serious Thirds Absence Consideration Gaps Conferences Third World Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.”

Ideas Body Form Science Easy Difficult Term Clear Consideration Jealous Atoms I Am Jealous

Author:Michael Faraday

“There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.”

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.”

Writing Kind Book Seems Impossible Written One Thing Expected Consideration

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.”

Emotion Media Mass Intellectual Propaganda Consideration Modest Mein Kampf Ballast

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.”

Mind States Taken Health Preserves Permanent Consideration State Of Mind Good Health

Book:The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society

Source: The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society

“We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.”

May Book Ideas Different Order Belief Duty Accepted Observation Consideration Instruction Inference Scientific Knowledge Mosaics

Book:Natural Science and Religion

Source: Natural Science and Religion

“The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.”

Mind Feelings Action Lines Effects Direct Objectives Rhythm Consideration Affected Tempo Direct Effect

Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.”

Moving Energy Sound Results Growing Risk Honest Judgment Method Consideration Venture Definite Sound Judgment Growing Business

Author:Marshall Field

“It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”

Giving States President Information Judging Constitution Unions Congress Consideration

Book:State of the Union Addresses

Source: State of the Union Addresses

“I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.”

Ifs Writing Littles Seems Might Bits Little Bit Vain Consideration Arabia

Author:James Lee Burke

“My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.”

Want Feelings Found Parent Born Situation Missing Son Late Pressure Consideration My Son Back And Forth Being A Parent

Author:Karen Allen

“The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.”

Doe Real Science Values Three Interest Economic Deserve Proportion Consideration Quarters Publication

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.”

Has Beens Century Crime Committed Communism Consideration Passages Dedicated Capitalist Twentieth Century Idealist Contemptuous Stalin And Hitler

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.”

Feels Reader Standards Leaving Consideration Pompous

Author:Jonathan Kellerman