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“Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.”

Goal Decision Results Common Effort Victory Consequence Aim Conclusion Nevertheless Common Goal

Book:Precepts and Judgments

Source: Precepts and Judgments

“There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.”

Pay Judging Tragedy Outcomes Nevertheless

Book:Classics Revisited

Source: Classics Revisited

“Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.”

Ifs World Should Hate Effort Divine Blessing Goodness Deserve Constant Misery Guilty This Life Nevertheless Despised Ungrateful Ingratitude Hate Life

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

Philosophy Problem Turns Force Understanding Common Source Ultimate Function Preserves Nevertheless Elementals Pseudo

Author:Martin Heidegger

“As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I repeat that every possibility offered by the present resolution must be explored, that there are a lot of them and they still leave us with a lot of leeway when it comes to ways of achieving the objective of eliminating any weapons of mass destruction which may exist in Iraq. I'd like nevertheless to note that, as things stand at the moment, I have, to my knowledge, no indisputable proof in this sphere.”

“As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.”

“The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.”

Ifs States Class Air Appearance Labour Paradox Nevertheless Commodity Propositions Paradoxical

Book:Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

Source: Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

“Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.”

May Facts America Humanity Belief Chance Common Missing Terrible Civilization Ancient Dues Former Features Legends Nevertheless Site Accustomed Tempted Similarity Stanley Miss America

Author:Frederick Soddy

“We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.”

Mind Play Moments Roles Fashion Theory Essentials Intellectual Weight Institutions Observation Interpretation Elsewhere Nevertheless Competing Heresy Authoritarianism Inertia

Author:Hubert Reeves

“Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.”

Knows Men Light Faces Sun Kings Shapes Moon Ordinary Circles Superiors Spheres Rulers Nevertheless Rivals Grandeur Ordinary Man Proximity

Book:The Hieroglyphic Monad

Source: The Hieroglyphic Monad

“To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.”

Should Wells Water Too Much Objects Depends Luck Workers Bottom Aids Nevertheless Good Luck Stirring Muddy Submerged

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.”

Source: Linear Programming and Extensions

“One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.”

“Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.”

“Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.”

People Opportunity Lost Force President Decision Calling Aspiration Significance Awards Brutal Nevertheless Wilson Underestimated Armenians Motherland Perfidy President Wilson

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.”

Needs Persons Done Body Happens Would Be Lasts Remember Levels Consequence Arguing Ethical Nevertheless Representation Imperatives Being Done Mediation Inscriptions

Author:Philip Auslander

“Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'”

“Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.”

Destiny Higher Critical Nevertheless Attending

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.”

Triumph Nevertheless Prostitution Chained Puritanism

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.”

Mean War Turns Peace Victory Remains Circles Tides Reverse Nevertheless

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.”

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...”

“The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.”

May Whole Together Individual Goal Sin Support Elements Atmosphere Greek Working Together Nevertheless Supportive Synergy

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”

Men Self Sometimes Form Class Sacrifice Objects Duty Eternal Villain Heroism Nevertheless Lowest Scorn Impressive Grandeur Self Sacrifice Ascent

Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.”

Men Heart Faces Humility Pride Achievement Modesty Nevertheless Modest

Book:God's Men: A Novel

Source: God's Men: A Novel

“What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.”

Hard Water Rocks Stones Harder Wave Nevertheless

Author:Ovid

“War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.”

War States Evil Clear Crime Honor Morality Army Nevertheless Shrinks Courtesy Morality And Religion

Author:Robert Southey

“I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.”

Thinking May Self Moments Seems Memories Oneself Nevertheless Insignificant Inner Self

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.”

Wells May Art Pleasure Please Being True Nevertheless

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.”

Feels Form Values Novel Balance Concerned Fundamentals Wine Dry Nevertheless Sentimental Grocers

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.”

Should Firsts May Seems Principles Strange Sick Lays Harm Hospitals Nurse Nevertheless Requirements Nursing

Author:Florence Nightingale

“I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.”

People Knows Reason Character Voice One Thing Zero Nevertheless Wrong Things Amused

Author:Frank Oz

“You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.”

People Ifs Believe May Views Speech Acknowledge Disagree Freedom Of Speech Nevertheless Selective Detest

Author:George Brandis

“Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.”

Men Feels Should Mind Believe I Believe Water Bears Creator Characteristics Charm Nevertheless Impress Monotonous

Book:Traits of American Life

Source: Traits of American Life

“Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.”

Knows Country Government Streets Worst Willing Confusion Disorder Cynicism Submit Nevertheless Vivid Incompetence

Book:The Little Virtues: Essays

Source: The Little Virtues: Essays

“There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.”

Want Success Artist Integrity Harder Artistic Nevertheless Tombs Artistic Integrity

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.”

Men Stills Spiritual Death Natural Nevertheless After Death

Book:Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures

Source: Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures

“Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.”

Men Should May Conscience Every Man Nevertheless Interiors Dwelling Unfaithful Better Man

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!”

Thinking World Persons Seems Christian Beautiful Artist Religion Taste Bounds Scholar Nevertheless Great Art Beautiful Women Great Artist Good Taste Announcing

Author:Georgia Harkness

“Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.”

“We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.”

Ifs Giving Years May Born Son Dear Thanks Savior Nevertheless Venture December

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Hope for forces which you do not yet have. That is what is most impossible, and nevertheless possible.”

Force Impossible Nevertheless

Author:Rahel Varnhagen

“Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.”

Men World Enough Wise Holy Bible Overcoming Intellect Scripture Nevertheless Exalted Holy Scriptures

Author:Angela of Foligno

“TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.”

“Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'”

Ifs Way Giving Wells May Use Might Jesus Answers Offers Giving Up Selling Nevertheless Better Off Incentives Empowered Follow Me

Author:Samir Selmanovic

“Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.”

Increase Riches Satisfied Wicked Nevertheless Avarice

Author:Horace

“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.”

Years Firsts Courses Individual Party Principles Position Type Truth Is Collectives Nevertheless Cult

Author:Anastas Mikoyan

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

Men Soul Pain Causes Greatness Offers Activity Adversity Shining Endure Generosity Bliss Crush Misfortunes Reverse Nevertheless Mars Severe Nobility Hindrance Owing Insensibility

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.”

Might Taken Becoming Stones Responsible Thrown Within You Nevertheless Unjust Avoided Back Again

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

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