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• Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

  Edward Conze

  Buddhism, Brainless

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• The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Attitude, Amputees, Needs

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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Beastly, Fortune

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• ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

  George Eliot

  Furniture, World, Dinner

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2255, Delphi Classics

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• I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.

  Anna Quindlen

  Silly, Thinking, Sight

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• We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Greatness, Willpower

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  New York, People, Leader

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• Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Knives, Gossip, Potatoes

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Government, Navy

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.

  Frank Pittman

  Years, Creating, Effort

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• But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

  Roger Bacon

  Vacuums, Doe, Needs

  Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.485, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Girl, Education, Book

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• The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

  Aristotle

  Taste, Beast, Mass

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1731, Princeton University Press

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• I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Feelings, Capacity

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• Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

  Caroline Flint

  Animal, Alternatives, Should

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

  Daniel Quinn

  Trying, Helping, Homeless

  Daniel Quinn (1999). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, Harmony

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• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Government, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

  Ai Weiwei

  Character, Chinese, Language

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• When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Summer, Past, Would Be

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• Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

  Jalal Talabani

  Military, Alternatives, Currents

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• In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.

  Alfred Jodl

  Mean, Views, Order

  "The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.

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• I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Democracy, Conservative, Election

  "Thatcher visits her old friend Pinochet", www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.

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