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Letter "M" » major
«Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.»
«Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.»
«Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.»
«It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.»
«It's a good idea not to major in minor things.»
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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syllogisms,
The Art of Reasoning
«I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?»
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
circle,
elements,
endeavoring,
helpless,
lets,
local,
major,
narrow,
passive,
The Elements,
trade,
trade union,
Trade unions,
unions
«It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.»
«Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life»