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prospect
«Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the resultma sangostu akramani--without succumbing to inaction)»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
anticipation, Ave, Hast, inaction, prospect, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs, thereof, translation
«To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
affected, death penalty, defendant, defendants, deprive, entitled, exclude, impartial, juror, jurors, jury, penalty, prospect, slightest
«When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.»
Author: John O'Toole
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
disappear, executing, guest, instantly, living room, magical, prospect, uninvited
«The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
accusing, alcohol, aspirations, deliverance, devices, proneness, prospect, suppressing, unrealizable
«What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.»
Author: Richard Heber
| Keywords:
blindness, bows, breezes, Ceylon, isle, Isle of Man, prospect, spicy
«Would you take a new prospect into this customer's plant or offices to show off your partnership? If you can't get a good reference from this account-or if you aren't willing to ask for one-you need to re-examine the relationship.»
Author: Robert Miller
| Keywords:
customer, examine, offices, partnership, partnerships, prospect, re-examine, reference, references, show off
«What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan . . . with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.»
Author: William J. Perry
| Keywords:
bidder, bidders, bombs, Korea, Nuclear bomb, nuclear power, plutonium, prospect, South American, South Korea, specter, specters
«The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, benefactor, benefactors, esteemed, inoffensive, obstruction, obstructions, open up, prospect, remove, sweetest, The Avenue
«TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
compound, desirability, Discovery of, End of time, increasing, prospect
