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“Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.”

Source: Curiosities of literature

“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.”

People Knows Feels Writing May Two Book Character Term Novel Imagine Seeing Ready Invention Intimate

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not.”

Ifs May Seems Today Young Used Term Roles Taken Adults Young Adult Adolescence Misunderstanding Roles In Life

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.”

May Form Individual Language Term Race Experience Instruments Unity Intuition Abstract Organized Multiple Axioms

Book:Problems of Life and Mind: v.1-2 . The foundations of a creed

Source: Problems of Life and Mind: v.1-2 . The foundations of a creed

“The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.”

People Trying May Persons Helping Term Answers Heard Response Hated Insult Embedded

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.”

Ifs World Way May Term Interesting Talent Ambition

Author:Eric Idle

“Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.”

People May Language Term Grew Cold Speech Winter Weather Gentleman Labour Obscure Admirable Salute No Patience I Have No Patience

Author:Dorothy Osborne

“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.”

May Facts Desire Literature Term Communication Reader Tasks Fundamentals Impression Rebellion Nevertheless Obscure

Author:Georges Bataille

“Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.”

Knows World Heart May Earth Purpose Causes Term Known Holy Pure Prove Tests Soil Symbolic Barren Allusion Emanate

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.”

People May Care Suffering Evil Opportunity Term Sin Intention Deeds Sovereign Short Term Prompts Evil People Enrichment Oversight

Book:Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

Source: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

“Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.”

“Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy, in a certain way. But nations are not like people in the sense that we are cumulatively represented by others - and their interpretations of what our interests are may not be the same as what they really are. And that's what's dangerous, even in a democracy.”

People Way May Done Certain Nations Easy Term Interest Democracy Dangerous Policy Interpretation Foreign Policy Interaction

Author:Serj Tankian

“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”

“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.”

“While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.”

May Long Book Term Effects Style New York Long Term New York Times

Author:Norman Mailer

“Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.”

Ifs Firsts May Long Sometimes Seems Fighting Winning Waiting Term Chance Deals Plans Risk Huge Fit Rewards Long Term Overwhelming Take A Chance

Author:Mike Tyson

“Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.”

Men Giving May Term Accepting Learning Honor Extraordinary Modesty Modest Autobiography Begging Representing Inscriptions

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.”

Knows May Matter Facts Might Time Process Term Eternal Aspect Eternity Finals Paradise Nevertheless Repetition Expulsion

Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.”

May Used Term Existence Absolutes Power Of Words

Book:The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters

Source: The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters

“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”

Ifs Wells May Self America Asks Term Possibility Paper Wit Desperate Privacy Autobiography Publicity Outrageous Gimmicks

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.”

Source: The Concept of Mind

“The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.”

Ifs Thinking Humans May Together Moving Term Talking Rights Design Stones Aim Foundation Human Rights Drawing Boards Engineering Inches Phases

Author:Mary Robinson

“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”

Way May Whole Language Term Natural Simple Identity Elements Various Tricks Data Native Bags Compatible Native Language

Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

“Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.”

Knows Needs May Real Use Might Next Language Term Knowing Negative Dare Affirmative Trousers

Author:J. L. Austin

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.”

Should May Long Term Interest Safety Response Rate Investing Long Term Investors Principal Vary Interest Rate

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting "Glory to God," but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God's.”

Way Want Kind May Stills Facts Hands Term Religious Mistake Accepting Christianity Fire Nice Sky Share Calling Glory Promoting Revival Altars Shouting Glory Of God Power Of God Chariots

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“But it may be one of our best markets in the long term because when the Japanese society embraces a brand it is a very deep connection, so we're willing to make that investment knowing that it's not the quick route to success that might be in other countries.”

May Long Country Might Success Term Knowing Willing Connections Embrace Investment Brands Long Term Other Countries Routes Very Deep Deep Connections

Author:Reed Hastings

“Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created.”

“We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.”

Thinking Looks Kind May Ideas Self Term Justice Chance Interesting Rights Equal Advantage Very Interesting Being Equal

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.”

“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”

Men May Persons Father Speak Term Friendship Enemy Cases Wife Son Husband Bitterness Father Son

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

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