What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
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FRANCIS BACON, SR. Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
FRANCIS BACON The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,...
JOHN RUSKIN What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,...
SALMAN RUSHDIE When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings fr...
HEYWOOD BROUN Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrine...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings fr...
HEYWOOD C. BROUN The rabble estimate few things according to their real value,
most things according to their prejud...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil...
PAT BUCHANAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, ...
JAMES HARRINGTON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... The U.S. Air Force is committed to defending the rights of all of our men and women whatever their b...
JENNIFER STEPHENS The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that ...
RICHARD DAWKINS To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the onl...
DENNIS PRAGER They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last t...
LUKASZ LANIECKI It is not my place to judge any person's beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to be...
TOM ALTHOUSE The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.
NICHOLAS LORE According to the teachings of various religions, the death penalty can be justified. We prepared our...
ARIEF SUPRATMAN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are...
LESLIE FIEDLER To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other wa...
CHRIS CHOCOLA Some individuals have been offered relocation to Sacramento. Very few will work from their homes, an...
DAVE JANKE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY HUNTER AUSTIN There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
KARL MARX From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need
KARL MARX What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the differe...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
HENRY MILLER From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriag...
TED CRUZ What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ...
HANNAH ARENDT And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and the...
BIBLE Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they b...
COVENTRY PATMORE It gives students practical skills and the ability to act out what they learn in the classroom. They...
MARK STEMEN Rise of Science Denialism
The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Notice what people block out or distort. These ideas reflect the underling beliefs that keep them fr...
TERENCE T. GORSKI What distinguishes Gov. Perry from Strayhorn is that he delivers for his big campaign donors on an u...
CRAIG MCDONALD Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain�...
ABHIJIT NASKAR What’s the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity ped...
JESSICA VALENTI There are very few companies in the league of where Procter is in terms of their success and ability...
BRUCE COHEN Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what th...
COVENTRY PATMORE Each person is an individual and espouses their beliefs in a republic. Every person, no matter what ...
LEN DEO It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of gen...
ALDOUS HUXLEY repentance recall men from what is according to their nature; all that it does is to make them cease...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
DEYTH BANGER To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...
"Dexter: You seem uncertain. I...
DEYTH BANGER Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the...
JOSEPH CONRAD What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
OCTAVIO PAZ Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY They generate the majority of their revenues now from the tax programs, ... Perhaps they're just rei...
BILL BURNHAM Our First Amendment rights are not given to us by the government but are rights we inherently posses...
REPUBLICAN PARTY Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that rede...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You can't overreact to the vocal few. You can find out if how they feel is reflective of the majorit...
DAVE TOMSKY Do we always know what consequences flow from certain decisions? Many times, not. Part of living con...
NEAL A. MAXWELL What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, ...
JOSHUA FOER Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
TONY ROBBINS Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS It would delight Van Miller if someone retires from here with their stock value being somewhere equa...
JIM WALSH Majority of people do not understand the true essence of helping that they mistook their act of kind...
JECON B. NADELA Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
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HENRY MILLER Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r...
HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc...
HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ...
HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient.
HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
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