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“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”

I Can Teacher Select

Author:Confucius

“I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.”

Thinking Firsts Science Given Class Study Average Dna Theoretical Select Franklin

Author:Francis Crick

“It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.”

Source: The World As I See It

“Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.”

Humans Helping Chance Company Compassion Ideals Realising Vocation Select Interbeing

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].”

Ifs Today Groups Danger Picks Gun Alcohol Gun Control Select Tobacco Fascists Firearms American Society

Author:John Dingell

“There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.”

Humans Heart Desire Safety Victim Delight Bullying Human Heart Gratification Select Cowardly Propensity Outraged

Author:James T. Rapier

“No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.”

Men Inspirational Fighting Leadership Ability Leader Depends Battle Great Leader Select Right Place Leadership By Famous Leaders Leadership Skills Good Leadership Lieutenants Right Man Leadership In Education

Author:Philip Danforth Armour

“Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.”

Ifs Thinking Happiness Select

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.”

Firsts Has Beens Use Lying Purpose Universe Process Can Do Study Materials Authority Bases Mathematics Fundamentals Counting Propose Select Measurement Measuring Classification

Book:Classification and Biology

Source: Classification and Biology

“Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.”

Leadership Teach Worry Player Team Football Priorities Nfl Select Inspiring Football

Author:Tony Dungy

“As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.”

Writing Difficult Tasks Worthy Lists Publishers Publish Select Wheat Daunting Tasks

Book:The Bestseller

Source: The Bestseller

“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”

Ifs Science House Speak Walks Seeing Teaching Subjects Train Cricket Observers Select Pupils

Author:Louis Agassiz

“For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.”

People Humans Form Political Social Opinion Democracy Rights Groups Possibility Shapes Dignity Practicals Welfare Select Reserved Human Dignity Criticise Political Freedom Social Welfare

Author:Olof Palme

“The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.”

Giving States Government Authority Advantage Secure Former Agency Senators Federal Government Select Formation Legislature Appointments State Government Federalism State Legislatures

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.”

Ifs Would Be Left President Officers Council Deceived Select Liable Judiciary Flatterer Pretender

Author:Roger Sherman

“In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.”

Men World Believe Humans Beautiful Forget Beauty Cases Worship Standards Perfection Filled Alas Select

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.”

Thinking Reality Chance Cases Materials Offers Realistic Reincarnation Select Shortage

Author:Sean Connery

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”

Ifs Want Happiness Spirituality Passion Literature Justice Atheism Illusion Embrace Appeals Mysticism Temperament Select Want To Be Happy

Author:Cyril Connolly

“If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.”

Ifs House Series Leaving Reverse Select Bmw Backsides Top Gear

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Heart Reality Song My Heart Select

Author:Diana Ross

“Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.”

God Funny Names Effects Vain Select Swearing

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Years Facts Able Political President Party Willing Determined Limitation Candidates Select Facts Of Life Political Life Indebted I Am Determined Indebtedness

Author:Howard Hughes

“That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislature, executive, and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.”

People Thinking Wells Persons Government Opinion Democracy Exercise Authority Election Chosen Executives Representatives Inherent Select Legislature Secured Instability Judiciary

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.”

Men Body Interest Community Military Ought Constitution Genuine Secure Useless Permanent Attachment Regulation Avoided Select Militia Defenseless Military Man

Author:Richard Henry Lee

“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.”

“Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.”

May Two Important Ideas Together Process Essentials Important Things Features Items Provision Select Indexing

Book:Endless horizons

Source: Endless horizons

“A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”

Ifs Men Writing Humans Play Feelings Form Joy Lying Existence Share He Man Intellectual Jokes Delight Chess Ignorant Pity Bridges Charm Productive Peculiar Select Human Existence Like Love

Book:The Game of Chess

Source: The Game of Chess

“Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.”

People Knows Space Groups Math Astronomy Frontiers Select Astronaut New Frontiers Space Science

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

“Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.”

Soul Speak Stealing Authenticity Your Soul Originality Select Graphic Design Art And Creativity Artists And Creativity Graphic Artist Being Authentic Relay Races Inspiration And Art Thievery Film Music Bodies Of Water Graphic Art

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.”

People Ifs Mind Helping Young Reading Parent Challenges Youth Taste Concerned Meals Select Spoiled Good Taste

Author:Marvin J. Ashton

“I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.”

Thinking Issues Doubt Taste Adversaries Select When In Doubt

Book:We the Living

Source: We the Living

“In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.”

Ifs Use Vote Election Rejects Select

Author:Kisan Baburao Hazare

“Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.”

Kind Persons Body Spiritual Society Members Intellectual All Kinds Organisms Select Containing

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.”

World Kids Situation Television Offers Appeals Select Programmes

Author:Bryan Cranston

“Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.”

America Law Machines Congress Ruins Hills Temples Legislation Monkeys Coins Slides Select Bribe Capitol Capitol Hill Vending Machines

Author:Fred Reed

“There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.”

Real Actors Roles Groups Incredibles Select Sean Philip Daniel Day Lewis

Author:Derek Magyar

“If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own”

Ifs Men World Nations Customs Propositions Examination Select Bidding

Author:Herodotus

“... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.”

Thinking Trying Ideas States Whole Moments Able Political Purpose Community Justice Answers Class Minorities Constructs Founding Select

Author:Plato

“I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.”

Ifs Giving Should Demand Ems Insecure Up To You Select Headlines

Author:Russell Crowe

“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.”

Shows Artist Audience Virtue Groups Unique Theater Dresses Theatre Evening Idiot Rehearsal Select

Book:Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor

Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor

“Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.”

People Mean Moments Law Blood Cold Terror Chosen Destructive Tyrants Select Legislators Usurpers

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.”

Different Literature Figures Fit Tools Select

Author:Nora Roberts

“Microsoft Mobile Oy is a legal construct that was created to facilitate the merger. It is not a brand that will be seen by consumers. The Nokia brand is available to Microsoft to use for its mobile phones products for a period of time, but Nokia as a brand will not be used for long going forward for smartphones. Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.”

Long Use Used Products Periods Phones Available Brands Consumers Constructs Mobile Select Microsoft Facilitate Mobile Phones Smartphones Mergers Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.”

“The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires”

People World Looks Art Made Real Groups Hundred Millionaire Select Gallery Tourists Exhibits Cabinets Trophies Small Groups Art Galleries Wall And Piece

Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.”

People Political Quality Trouble Honest Needed Skills Office Tests Opposites Damn Cheating Select Honest People Personal Qualities

Book:Code of the Lifemaker

Source: Code of the Lifemaker

“When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life”

Years Two Three Commitment Two Years Three Years Topics Select

Author:Tracy Kidder

“Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”

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