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“In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.”

Hands Action Given Fields Draws Management Affair Wrath Frustrating Craving Scorn Traders Scribes

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.”

Giving Given Views Written Fields Rate Versions Conqueror Prominence

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”

Ifs Years Doe Lying Given Pay Land Conditions Fields Produce Products Return Garden Plant Owners Gardener

Author:Hammurabi

“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”

“Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.”

Years Given Greater Teacher Fields Humility Forty Scholar Years Of Experience Great Confidence

Book:Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

Source: Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.”

People Mind Heart Doe Given Fields Mountain India Towns Lifetime Affection Forests Desert Village Heart And Mind Headlines Love And Affection

Author:Ruskin Bond

“Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations and experiments of their objectivity, makes them biased, and, moreover, creates false problems.”

“But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.”

Wells Jobs Given Emotion Successful Fields Emotional Stronger Determine Handle Our Relationship Emotional Intelligence

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.”

Way May Given Fields Truth Is Bravery Loyalty Closets

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11, to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.”

Believe Reason Able Given I Believe Decision Talent Fields Arms Skills Height

Author:Russell Wilson

“The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.”

Thinking Given Ability Fields Research Boxes Conventional Handicaps Conventional Wisdom Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Aubrey de Grey