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knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
dry superstitions belief
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. Charles Spurgeon
dry
We don't get ourselves dry cleaned. Barney Frank
dry actors going-to-work
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again. Benjamin Walker
dry dishes blanket
Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes! Charles M. Schulz
dry turns unless
Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two. Tiger Woods
dry gilded
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes. Baltasar Gracian
dry last
we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated. George Taylor
dry easier greens pins
The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder. James Driscoll
dry-up comfort population
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry. Alexis de Tocqueville
action
We must scrunch or be scrunched. Charles Dickens
action program volume
It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program. Al Sharpton
action defend few government leader ministers president
We want the President to take action now as the leader of the Government and not a few ministers to defend him. Joseph Kamotho
action against ask future industry paper papers permission pledge present scientists
We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research. Cindy Cohn
action against continue deceptive fraudulent free intend internet law notice putting schemes together web
We want them to know that the borderless Internet marketplace is not a free zone. Together with our partners, we are putting get-rich-quick schemes on notice that we're monitoring the Web and that we intend to take law enforcement action against those that continue to make fraudulent or deceptive claims. Jodie Bernstein
action against crime eligible people serious
We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution, Janet Reno
action assistance dangerous grow people speak stay thousands
We want to stay as long as we can. As we speak we have had to suspend action in many areas. Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance because it's too dangerous and it could grow exponentially. Jan Egeland
action government hang leadership leaving provincial role students
We want to see the provincial government play more of a leadership role and not leaving the colleges, and the students especially, out to hang dry, and we need to see that action very quickly. Jesse Greener
action practicals
It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical. Chogyam Trungpa