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“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”

Men Feels Persons Moments Anger Praise Angry Length Right Person Right Moment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.”

Ifs Moments Wisdom Conditions Ready Communicate Opening Length Present Moment Faculty Breadth

Author:Thomas Cogswell Upham

“Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.”

Moments Length Jewels Boast

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.”

Want Mean Moments Asks Goal Impossible Journey Length Impatience

Book:Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind

Source: Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind

“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!”

Knows Way Writing Persons Done Moments Truth Lying Desire Speak Deals Emotion Fiction Events Details Length Peculiar Packs Inventing Fiction Writers Devious

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.”

Whole Moments Lasts Certain Results Enjoyed Labour Length Consumed

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy