Quotes with methods

  • The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
  • The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]
  • People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,  that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
  • The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
  • To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
  • A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
  • Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Joseph Addison The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Robert Henri A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • John von Neumann Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
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  • Malcolm X Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • C. S. Lewis He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 19-20
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Shuster However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Joan Rivers I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Marshall Field I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
    Marshall Field
    American businessman (1834 - 1906)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Leon Trotsky In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Arthur Erickson In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Albert Low Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
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  • Antoine Lavoisier Languages are true analytical methods.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Bhagat Singh Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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