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"The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction." »Chinese
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"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." »Otto von Bismark
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"Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence." »Guicciardini
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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air." »Simms
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"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment." »Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
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"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction." »Tom Browne
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." »Cicero
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"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." »William A. Foster
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"Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive." »Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction." »Michael Faraday
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"The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will." »Ferdinand Foch
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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." »Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable." »Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." »Samuel Smiles
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"Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family." »Manu
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"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition." »Richard Clark
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"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." »Albert Einstein
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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." »Plato
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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." »Plato
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"It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself." »Epictetus, Enchiridion
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"You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise." »Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275
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"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." »Albert Einstein
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"Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates." »Cervantes
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw
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