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«One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal.»
Author: Jean Harlow
(Actress)
| Keywords:
cookie, cookies, darn, darned, frightened, germs, offered, proposal, proposals, underestimate
«The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
competing, demonstrably, desirable, Economic reform, effectual, idealism, idealist, impracticable, objectionable, offered, pointing, pointing out, political program, program, successfully
«This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.»
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
conscientious, definite, fervent, impartial, ineradicable, inquiringly, inspire, instruction, inward, judging, notions, offered, outward, peculiar, quicken, quickening, quickens, regularities, regularity, religious instruction, religious sect, religious truth, sect, stamp, steadily, stir, stir up, strengthen, subjects, The Quickening
«The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms»
«Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Gifts,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
offered, perceived, such that
«Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
History,
Innovation,
Technology
| Keywords:
innovation, in history, offered
«The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising
«The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bag, breaking away, break away, broke, but then, chased, cried, enema, enemas, filled, gotten, go across, go around, hands down, hand down, offered, Old Boys, old hand, one of the boys, poor boy, ran, reached, rocks, run across, run around, The Children, The Toy, The Village, this one, This Was, took, toy, toyed, toys, toy with, village, whap
«Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
accumulate, justify, offered, taxing, temptations, The Industry, The Temptations