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«Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.»
Author: Dudley Nichols
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chose, clothed, entertained, faculties, imaginative, Jesus of Nazareth, parable, precept, Precepts, short stories, short story, The short story
«It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.»
«Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.»
Author: Albert Bandura
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domain, explored, measures, precept, psychological, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor
«RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ceremony, essential oil, precept, religious ceremony, rite, semi, squeezed
«Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget»
«Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Death and dying
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died young, precept, sounds, strange, Too Old
«It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself',' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.»
«My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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ornament, ornamented, owner, precept
«Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.»
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