Quotes with six-and-twenty

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  • Mahatma Gandhi Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Aldo Leopold Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bill Kristol Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.''
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lord George Byron Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Rae Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.
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    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Robert Townsend Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Ben Bernanke Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Anita Roddick Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Adam Smith Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • John Donne Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bertrand Russell Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alice Duer Miller Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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