Portions Quotes - Page 13

• All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

  Josephus

  Spiritual, Forever, Soul

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• Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

  Jacques Barzun

  Fashion, Eye, Vices

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• The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Form, Nations

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.235

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• The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

  John Stuart Mill

  Struggle, Rome, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill “Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises: by John Stuart Mill (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Twenties, Banking

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• Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

  Napoleon Hill

  Gratitude, Adversity, Animal

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.166, Penguin

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• If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

  Solon

  Gratitude, Home, Men

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• Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Garden, Ponds

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• Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Minutes, Etiquette, Polite

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• The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.

  Ellen G. White

  Lying, Sleep, Should Have

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.162, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

  John Grant

  Country, Ocean, Unique

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• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

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• A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

  Fisher Ames

  Believe, Evil, Liberty

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.346, Burt Franklin

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• I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

  Alfred Nobel

  Children, Mistake, Independent

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• Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

  Alexei Panshin

  Lying, Maturity, Self

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.

  Christopher Flavin

  Years, Wind, Land

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• My teaching influences who you are and who you become, I said, because insofar as I persuade you to change what you know, I can't help but persuade you to change who you are. A vast portion of who you are just is a matter of what you know.

  Marshall Gregory

  Teaching, Matter, Helping

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• Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Sight, Perception

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Rain, Thinking, People

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.189, A&C Black

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• The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Made, Said

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.17, Penguin

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• If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

  Robin Gibb

  Years, Might, Lasts

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• A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Men

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• The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

  Don Davis

  Body, May, Damage

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• The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Daughter, Church, Poor

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.108, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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