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«Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| Keywords:
attend, attend to, at present, capacities, elementary, misunderstand, offspring, requirements, surprising
«Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
capacities, creativeness, embryonic, humanness, inchoate, potentialities, shaped
«Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.»
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
(Clergyman, Writer)
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alleged, capacities, impossibilities, stretched
«It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Uniqueness
| Keywords:
capacities, creativeness, milieu, optimal, playground, playgrounds, talents, The Source, unfolding, uniqueness
«A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.»
Author: George F. Will
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«The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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activities, awaken, capacities, difficulties, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, precisely
«Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
capacities, caused, mental capacity, The Mental
«HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered --his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue --itself all coated --uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. --_Biography of Bishop Potter_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
according, affairs, capacities, citizen, convictions, political, Political affairs, validity
«Sing-Sing has several men who were sent there simply because they had Axminster desires and rag-carpet capacities»
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