Quotes with sustenance

  • People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Abdul Kalam No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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  • David Mitchell True knowledge without experience is food without sustenance.
    Wolkenatlas (2008) 226
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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