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Letter "H" » harnessing
«The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.»
Author: Evan G. Galbraith
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department, desperately, foreign policy, Foreign Service, formulation, harnessed, harnessing, officers, State Department, vigorously
«Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life. The key for the betterment and completeness of modern living is education. But, ' Man cannot live by bread alone '. Man, after all, is also composed of intellect and soul. Therefore, education in general, and higher education in particular, must aim to provide, beyond the physical, food for the intellect and soul. That education which ignores man's intrinsic nature, and neglects his intellect and reasoning power can not be considered true education.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| Keywords:
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«Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.»
Author: Irving Berlin
(Composer)
| About:
Attitude
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«I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.»
Author: Sir George Porter
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«Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.»
Author: Teilhard de Chardin
(Geologist, Mystic, Philosopher, Priest)
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discovered, energies, gravity, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, History of, History of the, History of the world, mastering, second time, second world, someday, The History, The History of, tides, waves, winds
«Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it»
Author: Russian Proverb
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, horse
«Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
beneficent, calmly, enables, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, respectfully, routine, silly
«What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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«Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
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«We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.»
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