Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stak...
WENDELL PHILLIPS I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowled...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
GEORGE P. SHULTZ I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowled...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... For that, we had to rent a scaffold, ... After that, I figure I can do anything.
LISA KLOFKORN We transplant the cells on a scaffold that keeps them alive, then directs them to leave in a control...
DAVID MOONEY This global world has forever changed market and social conditions. I think our survival is at stake...
BRIAN GALLAGHER Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No one has paid attention to it. But now people are realizing that freedom of expression throughout ...
JULIEN PAIN I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
MARY HARRIS JONES It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE With $4 billion at stake, you would fight to the last, ... has been a poison for U.S.-Canada relatio...
GARY HUFBAUER Most housing has been destroyed in the hardest-hit areas, so the survival of thousands of young chil...
ANN VENEMAN It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Gayle Saylor helped us in many ways and kept some of us from falling off the scaffold. No one fell o...
JOY SIMMONS The governor has always been very sincere and free with these people (the militants), and always put...
ABEL OSHAVIRE I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
MOTHER JONES Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed...
H.L. MENCKEN Intel has a lot at stake with this platform and they really need to deliver on it.
ERIK LOGAN All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
JOHN MASON BROWN I don't know a country in the entire world that has made faster progress from war, let alone such a ...
PADDY ASHDOWN It's got to be constructive if the person managing the fund has a personal stake in it.
BURTON GREENWALD When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place....
ANDRES SEGOVIA We basically want to make these materials available to anybody and everybody who has a stake in sell...
BOB LACHKY State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has...
ERNIE FLETCHER Whatever emotions he has, he made that second to winning the game for the Chargers. We knew what was...
MIKE GOFF The government has worked hard to strengthen preparedness and prevention efforts and good progress h...
DIDA CONNOR We must move from denigration to integration if we are to achieve a peaceful world.
DAVID FRISKO TEACHER The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room s...
THOMAS JORDAN JARVIS One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes ...
THOMAS B. REED One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes ...
THOMAS REED Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great.
NELSON RIOS The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud...
PIERRE CORNEILLE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor ...
VICTOR HUGO I don't see any risk. There is too much at stake, the image of the country is at stake, and really I...
DENIS OSWALD We plan to sell the 15.7 percent stake in the first half and the remaining stake later depending on ...
LEE CHUL Plans to sell a controlling GMAC stake would likely boost credit ratings and cut funding costs, ... ...
ROBERT BARRY I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
MOTHER JONES There has been progress but starting from a regrettably low baseline,
ANDY HAYMAN He has been tremendous. From the start of the year up to now, the games and strides we've made ... H...
IAN WHITE Both have understood what is at stake ... The Nasdaq move has completely changed the landscape in Eu...
ELIE DARWISH We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the hea...
DAVID PETRAEUS We have made a sufficient progress to stop the clock. This progress has been made primarily in the n...
ED WATT Israel has the right to defend itself and to deal with security, but Israel also has a need to bear ...
ARI FLEISCHER Some progress has been made but much more needs to be done.
SHARAD PAWAR The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE Either we are running ‘from’ what we fear, or running ‘to’ what we fear. The former is a cho...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH This is a very special election. At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to it...
VOLODYMYR LYTVYN History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has p...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ I'm more disappointed in myself than any fan is going to be, ... Nobody has more at stake in what ha...
TERRY RYAN old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN But no concrete progress has been made in the case.
AJAY KUMAR These are very serious charges. What (Ryan) has at stake is his freedom, his reputation and his fina...
DAN WEBB From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From...
JOHN MUIR Carnival has nothing at stake here and therefore has no downside, ... We, on the other hand, have a ...
PETER RATCLIFFE Relative to what's at stake, it's trivial. What was at stake was a violation of the core principle o...
ROBERT SEIPLE We know what's at stake. We know that we can go out there and put ourselves in a really nice positio...
JAKE PLUMMER There is a lot at stake with this tournament.
CORY HUBBARD Whether on the scaffold high
Or on the battle-field we die,
Oh, what matter, when for Erin dea...
T.D. SULLIVAN I have read the press articles and confirm that for the time being the (European) Commission has no ...
FRANCO FRATTINI Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator...
LAURENCE J. PETER He does not support the repeal of the estate tax. It's simply not true. I have to step back and wond...
CHRIS COONEY That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact...
IMMANUEL KANT It's disappointing. It doesn't seem like significant progress has been made or is about to be made.
CAL COHEN When you go to the table, you see a person who has no interest in the Akron Public Schools -- no sta...
KAREN DINKINS This way we only have one guy out of his normal position. Felipe has been hitting second, and Philli...
JERRY NARRON If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it c...
FRANCISCO X. STORK Your life is at stake. If you don't step up, it could be you or your family tomorrow.
BILAL QAYYUM It was a blur to me. I saw her take it down the lane and said this is as good a look as we can get.
GREG STAKE Getting this far is a great boost for this program. We need to get stronger and keep working on fund...
GREG STAKE They were closing down on Jackie (Albrecht) on the inside and that's our strong point. We were tryin...
GREG STAKE Honestly, I don't think (big-game experience) was a part of it. We garnered more and more confidence...
GREG STAKE We said amongst the coaches that the monkey was off our back Tuesday.
GREG STAKE I'm excited as all get-out for these girls. I'm not sure it's sunk in yet, but I had goose bumps in ...
GREG STAKE I was surprised by how low the score was especially in the first half, but I felt it played into our...
GREG STAKE We spent the last three days calling on a higher being, and all these girls believe that and are pra...
GREG STAKE It's time to step up and make a commitment. There's so much at stake. So many possibilities. They're...
LARRY MAYFIELD Nowhere are the goals of freedom, democracy and progress more at stake, ... We know our clear way fo...
HOSHYAR ZEBARI We welcome the progress towards flexibility that has been made in China,
GORDON BROWN Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA This team has made a lot of accolades as the year has progressed. The Sweet 16 would just be another...
LAURA HARPER My arm is real tired because my hand has been extended for six months. Two weeks ago I said that Wil...
LARRY BURNS Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of ...
ANN OAKLEY I don't think any progress has been made on that front.
CHRIS CORRIGAN When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
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WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
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WENDELL JEFFRIES What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)
Thrush song,...
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