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Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyra... - MORE Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.

Honoré De Balzac

human nature | persecution

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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Howard Barker

theater

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Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing at... - MORE Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing at all, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl

rewards | generosity

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Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "f... - MORE Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine"Mtimidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement—are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

femininity | success | employment of women

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Of one thing I can assure you with comparative certainty, whoever wins, Europe will be economically ruined. This war is America's ... - MORE Of one thing I can assure you with comparative certainty, whoever wins, Europe will be economically ruined. This war is America's great opportunity.

John Dos Passos

business and commerce | war | opportunities

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The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity a... - MORE The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.

Gerald M. Edelman

computers | mind, the

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My loving people,—We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed m... - MORE My loving people,—We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but, I do assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear.

Elizabeth I

treason and treachery | monarchy | tyranny

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A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was six... - MORE A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain "Young Men's Republican Club," that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

old age

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Every society consists of men in the process of developing from children into parents. To assure continuity of tradition, society ... - MORE Every society consists of men in the process of developing from children into parents. To assure continuity of tradition, society must early prepare for parenthood in its children; and it must take care of the unavoidable remnants of infantility in its adults. This is a large order, especially since a society needs many beings who can follow, a few who can lead, and some who can do both, alternately or in different areas of life.

Erik H. Erikson

parent education, the need for | family/community

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But you can assure Mother that all of her friends here will vote right ... not that we consider it a matter of great moment whethe... - MORE But you can assure Mother that all of her friends here will vote right ... not that we consider it a matter of great moment whether spirituous liquor is sold legally in consequence of lax laws, or illegally in consequence of lax officers as would probably be the case (at least hereabouts) if no licenses were granted. But we should vote "anti" for the looks and name of the thing.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

prohibition

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