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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
by Johann Kaspar Lavater (Theologian, German , born in 1741) keywords: accustomed, am, ask, boldly, boldness, faith, favor, giving, grandly, him, himself, humanity, impudence, nobly, prejudiced , without I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.
by Mario Lemieux (Athlete, Canadian , born in 1965) keywords: able, accustomed, back, couple, course, gone, got, level, play, point, radiation, six, surgery, through, times, treatments, weeks , where The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
by Maimonides (Philosopher, Spanish , born in 1135) keywords: accustomed, been, case, defends, his, likes, man, opinions, opposite, same, shuns, them, those, views, which , youth I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
by Kylie Minogue (Musician, Australian , born in 1968) keywords: accustomed, attention, been, being, certain, changed, famous, few, game, gone, having, last, level, months, next, up , years No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.
by Helen Wills Moody (Athlete, American , born in 1905) keywords: accustomed, august, become, climate, conditions, courts, days, different, few, france, new, player, playing, very , york It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
by Rebecca De Mornay (Actor, American , born in 1961) keywords: accept, accustomed, act, anger, crying, difficult, expressing, men, more, out, rage, screen, seeing, thing, very , women In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
by Edmund S. Muskie (Politician, American , born in 1914) keywords: accustomed, anger, become, campaigns, exaggeration, heat, little, our, political, process, served, us, well, whole , yet Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
by Rudolf Otto (Theologian, German , born in 1869) keywords: accustomed, bear, become, carved, dim, eyes, heavy, indian, light, make, marvelous, mythology, out, pillars, representations, rock, roof, slowly, then , walls Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
by Major Owens (Politician, American , born in 1936) keywords: accustomed, already, anything, children, classroom, exciting, faster, front, more, moves, teacher, than , world If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
by Manuel Puig (Author, Argentinian , born in 1932) keywords: accustomed, books, fully, gets, information, kind, might, mind, movie, philosophical, reading, same, somebody, spectator , understand All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
by Manfred von Richthofen (Aviator, German , born in 1892) keywords: accustomed, become, been, contained, fantastic, had, however, months, nothing, often, our, packed, papers, service, several, stories, talk, tedious, thing, trunks, war , whole A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
by Helen Rowland (Writer, American , born in 1875) keywords: accustomed, become, begin, characteristics, charming, cherish, faults, his, little, man, own, personal, them, thought , will Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
by Moshe Sharett (Statesman, Israeli , born in 1894) keywords: accustomed, army, become, blood, cannot, curious, freedom, giving, moral, shed, sustain, think, time , without We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
by William Robertson Smith (Scientist, Scottish , born in 1846) keywords: accustomed, appears, between, enter, god, hardly, idea, individual, into, men, nation, national, organisation, religion, religious, thing, think, unit, which , whole Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
by Edward Thorndike (Psychologist, American , born in 1874) keywords: ability, accustomed, beings, controlling, events, having, human, ideas, intellect, isolated, learn, learning, nature, power, rare, really, synonymous , think In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
by Carter G. Woodson (Historian, American , born in 1875) keywords: accustomed, best, democracy, educate, give, majority, our, rather, so-called, than, them, understand , want Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
by Fred Woodworthtopics: Government keywords: accustomed, basis, behavior, beings, cooperate, evil, government, human, mutual, own, responsibility, taking, their, trust , unnecessary
