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«Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
apply, destructive, lacking, out to, personality, powers, rests, solely, supply, turn out
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
Author: Monty Python
| Keywords:
bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, ceased, choir, choirs, curtain, daisies, expire, expired, expires, expiring, gone, invisible, joined, maker, nailed, nailing, no more, parrot, parrots, passed, perch, perched, perches, pined, pines, pining, pushing, push down, rests, ringed, ring out, Ring The, ring up, rung, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, The Choir, The Makers, The Nails
«It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Country,
Happiness,
Virtue
| Keywords:
boast, collective, dependent, dependent on, exertions, peculiar, rests, The Collective
«And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
answered, build on, coming together, feared, hardly, rests, safer, subjects, sum, sum up, The Question
«Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
at last, Divine, every last, fully, otherwise, rests, supposes, The Last Man, understood
«Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for th»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
at bottom, conservation, dealing, fundamental, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, policies, policy, prosper, rests, rural, sides, steadily, this policy
