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humility math reality
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss
humility pride vanity
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. C. S. Lewis
humility golf futility-of-life
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. Abba Eban
humility understanding quality
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. Aaron Swartz
humility heavy traffic
Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic. Alan K. Simpson
humility generosity quality
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician. Charlie Haden
humility discovery design
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. Charles Caleb Colton
humility greatness men
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
humility angel men
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
men position-of-power promise
Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women. Carol Roth
men decision stuff
All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff. Carol Leifer
men doors white
It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door. Carol Moseley Braun
men talking years
I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. Carol Vorderman
men men-and-women
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. Carlos Fuentes
men self enemy
Self importance is man's greatest enemy. Carlos Castaneda
men metaphysical ifs
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
men world life-is
We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.
men inventory energy
The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
gambling may succeed
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
gambling games fire
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Charles Lamb
gambling folds
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
gambling soul nuisance
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. Charles Baudelaire
gambling nevada people push sports
The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish. Dick Davies
gambling honor dice
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. William Shakespeare
gambling principles human-nature
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. Edmund Burke
gambling luck meals
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson
gambling good kids seeing
We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.