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"In popular terms visual art is just another form of social entrepreneurship and visual journalism that uses communication of emotional level. So let's be clever in what we converse about." »Petra Stefankova
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"Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society." »Ruth Nanda Anshen
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"To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness." »William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." »Ogden Nash
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"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit." »Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees." »The Hitopadesa
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"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem." »Lao Tzu
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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." »Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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"Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time." »Dr. Lillian Troll
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"The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe." »Anonymous
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"Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter." »LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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"Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength." »W. T. Ussery
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"No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today." »Richard Nixon
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"You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table." »Gypsy Smith
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"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." »Pearl S. Buck
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