Quotes with spirit

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  • Beth Simone Noveck The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Thornton Wilder The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • A. P. Herbert The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • John Fischer The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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  • Francis Picabia The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Camille Paglia The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Paul E. Little The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Ben Stein The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Arthur Erickson The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Alexander Wiley The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity.
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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