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«Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.»
«Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents»
Author: John Wanamaker
(Founder, Merchant)
| About:
Business,
Life
| Keywords:
misleads, to a great extent
«A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
atmosphere, dare, extent, Happy Life, joy, quiet, quieted, quieter, quiets, Quiet Life, to a great extent, to that extent, to what extent
«Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
Action,
Planning,
War
| Keywords:
addition, data, fog, infrequently, in addition, lastly, moonshine, planned, plan of action, to a great extent, twilight, uncertainty
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
attainment, effected, extent, paradoxical, scientific, the help, to a great extent
«By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
gregarious, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, remained, self interest, solitary, to a great extent
«As great as are the heavens and earth in extent, as far as the waters have swept, as far as fire; to these art thou superior, &c.»
«Men to a great extent believe what they want to - although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
although, basis, extent, to a great extent
«I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.»
«Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
approximate, approximates, ego, lesser, on the average, psychotic, psychotics, to a great extent
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