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reputed
«If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.»
Author: Isocrates
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
engaged, fulfill, profession, promises, public education, repute, reputed
«The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| Keywords:
conspicuous, conspicuous consumption, consumption, gaining, pecuniary, repute, reputed, retaining
«Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achievement, circumstances, endeavor, persistent, reputed
«Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| Keywords:
combination, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, drunkards, lecherous, liars, miserly, repute, reputed, sinners, weaknesses
«And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: / And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? / At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.»
«As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb, turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed!»
«But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Science
| Keywords:
exact, natural science, offers, repute, reputed, sciences
«He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all»
«A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills»
Author: Spanish Proverb
| Keywords:
bad, cured, curing, into the wind, kills, may, repute, reputed, The Killing, winded, wound, wounding, wound up
