Quotes with incidents

  • An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

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  • Walter Bagehot An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Napoleon Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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  • T. S. Eliot Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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