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• A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Names, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (1964). “Collected works of John Stuart Mill”

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• The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, Simplicity, Problem

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• A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Order, Risk

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• If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Differences, Wish, Might

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• I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Doubt, Shade

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• Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

  Umberto Eco

  Succeed, Scene, Rhetorical

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Political, Analysis, Tools

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

  Tom Robbins

  Mother, Hazards, World

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• Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Artist, Reality

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• The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.

  John Adams

  Art, Philosophy, Character

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.210, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.

  Socrates

  Mother, Nursing, Desire

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• Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

  Francis Bacon

  Useless, Logic, Servant

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Music, Order, Play

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• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Diversity, Talent

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.8

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• There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Government, Democracy

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Genius, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.194, Рипол Классик

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• Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Math, Intellectual

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
  where intention is sound, action is sound,
  and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

  Al-Nawawi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sound

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• The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.

  Richard Owen

  Blessed, Science, Epidemics

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• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Persistence, Men, Monkeys

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Climbing, Goal, Finals

  Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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• In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

  Derren Brown

  Art, Interesting, Magic

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• The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Want, Way, Rich

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.190, Penguin

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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