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adversary genius learning proper reads scarcely
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius . . . he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. William Godwin
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In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror. Ismail Kadare
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We have learned that loyal competition and respect for the adversary are strong values of this fantastic party that we have lived together.
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My main adversary is myself, ... I must not take any risks. I must consolidate and make sure I finish the race. Sebastien Loeb
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The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. George Michael
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It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. Chaim Potok
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reasoning without knowledge depends on working out what is most reasonable to believe. What is most reasonable to believe is the view which best survives adversary debate.
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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. Adolf Hitler
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius athens males
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia
genius poetic emily
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
genius said mark
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. William Shakespeare
genius republican throwing
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. Bob Packwood
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learning
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Nolan Sotillo
learning thinking brain
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. Beverley Mitchell
property
Family is a transitive property. Catherynne M. Valente
properly
We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place. Jon Brion
proper role unions
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
properties
I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world. Donald Trump
properly
I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all? Errol Morris
proper slap welcome
The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.
property
The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.
property reminds
The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.
proper respect women
I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason. Betty Wright
reads tarot
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. Sam Taylor-Johnson
reads
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it. Ta-Nehisi Coates
reads third worked
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. Ian Mcewan
reads reference
Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed. Terry Teachout
reads
More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
reads
He had some reads that he routinely makes, Jon Gruden
reads thy verses
Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end William Shenstone
reads smells
It reads like one and it smells like one.
reads
If you look at our numbers, the play of our quarterbacks was very impressive. They made the right reads on their passes.
scarcely truly
Scarcely any one of the striving, or even the perfected persons, truly understands Me.
scarcely understood
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. Joanna Lumley