Quotes with selects

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• Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

  Cavett Robert
  American businessman and founder of the National Speakers Association (1907 - 1997)
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• Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  John W. Foster
  American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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• God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

  Austin O'Malley
  American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• sufficiently
• exclusively
• originates
• contempt
• informed
• special

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