“ When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ”
- Jane Welsh Carlyle- Copy
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“ Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”
- Barrett Wendell- Copy
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“ It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 473
“ O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!... Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Fallen Kosciusco. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller. ”
- Bobby Locke- Copy
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“ The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
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“ Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. ”
- Saint Albertus Magnus- Copy
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“ If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team. ”
- Bud Wilkinson- Copy
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“ Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ Research is subordinated is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits. ”
- Walter Modell- Copy
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“ Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest. ”
- Cecil J. Sharpe- Copy
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“ For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior. ”
- William Collins- Copy
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“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”
- Johan Huizinga- Copy
- 73
“ Kamikazes must also be subordinated to a State discipline. ”
- Aslan Maskhadov- Copy
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“ We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. ”
- Marilyn Manson- Copy
- 102
“ Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ”
- Jerry Garcia- Copy
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“ Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ”
- Max Lerner- Copy
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“ It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. ”
- Bret Harte- Copy
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