Quotes with injury

  • No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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  • Booker T. Washington No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Seneca Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Maris As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Cassiodorus But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.
    Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Buckner I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.
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  • Kahlil Gibran If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bob Ney In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Cate Campbell Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is better to receive than to do injury.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Francis Beaumont It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Hobbes It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
    Leviathan (1651) XVIII
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Barbara Mandrell It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Samuel Johnson Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andrew Johnson Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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