“ There's a kind of prevailing sensibility in any given moment in time, so sometimes the art world gravitates away from your issues, and then sometimes it will come back towards them. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
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“ There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. ”
- James Anthony Froude- Copy
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“ Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
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“ It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. ”
- E. T. Bell- Copy
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“ If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. ”
- W. Gladden- Copy
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“ Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. ”
- Kerry Thornley- Copy
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“ After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired. ”
- Anatoly Karpov- Copy
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“ Having the right attitude, you see, about family-related issues is crucial, and there are encouraging signs that attitudes are improving. But attitude isn't everything. Historical patterns show that without the foundation of a solid biblical worldview, attitudes can easily shift back and forth with the prevailing breezes. ”
- Charles Colson- Copy
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