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«The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.»
«The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.»
«Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.»
Author: John Arbuthnot Fisher
| About:
Advertising,
Society,
Value
| Keywords:
corrupted, equals, insistence
«The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.»
«POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
distinguished, equals, file, plus, reformers
«Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.»
«I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Almighty, convenient, cousin, distemper, distempered, distempers, equals, grandmother, incurable, nurse, ornament, scarce, superiors, sweetheart, sweethearts, wealthy, wealthy man, wet nurse
«Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Equality,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
equals, plus, pretensions