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«Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.»
«The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.»
Author: Christine Stevens
| Keywords:
animal, animal rights, basis, dominant, golden, Golden Rule, position, rights, rule, species, The Golden Rule, treat
«While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position»
Author: Christopher Marlowe
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bargaining, bargains, position, puts, The Bargain
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
damnable, expense, momentary, position, ridiculous, The Pleasure
«That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!»
«The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| Keywords:
difficult, easiest, in that, Other People, position, positioning, put
«The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
derive, lie in, natural phenomenon, observe, observer, phenomena, phenomenon, position, The Observer, The Teacher
«You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.»
«The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Art,
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, attacking, coming, in all likelihood, likelihood, position, readiness, receive, rely, teaches, The Art of War, The Enemy, unassailable
«Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
corrupt, corrupting, get into, position
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