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Wonder is retained by wise pondering. Votes: 0

Ravi Zacharias

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. Votes: 0

Horace

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A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained. Votes: 0

Ruth Westheimer

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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more. Votes: 0

Daniel Craig

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We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans. Votes: 0

Patrick Leahy

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If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man. Votes: 0

Pat Frank

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Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems. Votes: 0

Karl Shapiro

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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation. Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. Votes: 0

Eli Broad

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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... Votes: 0

LeRoy Neiman

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Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement. Votes: 0

Gjon Mili

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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. Votes: 0

Harlan F. Stone

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I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were Votes: 0

George Nelson

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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained. Votes: 0

Paul Prudhomme

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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman

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The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. Votes: 0

William Rees-Mogg

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Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.] Votes: 0

Tacitus

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Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection. Votes: 0

Warren Farrell

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My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect. Votes: 0

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom Votes: 0

Franz Boas

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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio. Votes: 0

Mick Jagger

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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. Votes: 0

Franz Boas

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There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with. Votes: 0

Joanna Newsom

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I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years. Votes: 0

Giorgio Armani

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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. Votes: 0

Peter Canisius

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I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress. Votes: 0

Philip Kitcher

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Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained. Votes: 0

Hosea Ballou

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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. Votes: 0

Maria Mitchell

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I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since. Votes: 0

Alan Bennett

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The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power. Votes: 0

Thomas Cooper

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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. Votes: 0

Wilhelm Dilthey

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The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns. Votes: 0

Gretchen Mol

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We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained. Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats. Votes: 0

Frank Chodorov

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Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught. Votes: 0

David A. Bednar

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The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. Votes: 0

Francis Galton

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I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide. Votes: 0

Marc Kielburger

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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it. Votes: 0

Baruch Spinoza

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The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands. Votes: 0

P. W. Botha

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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking. Votes: 0

Yotam Ottolenghi

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Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? Votes: 0

Fisher Ames

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I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me. Votes: 0

Shunroku Hata

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With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties. Votes: 0

Leonard Peltier

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Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity. Votes: 0

Tom Hayden

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The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party. Votes: 0

Vladimir Lenin

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As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people. Votes: 0

Ken Wyatt

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Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data. Votes: 0

Edward M. Lerner

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At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind. Votes: 0

Joseph Brodsky

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I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood. Votes: 0

Lake Bell

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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know. Votes: 0

Oliver Sacks

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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. Votes: 0

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information. Votes: 0

Ellen DeGeneres

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I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart. Votes: 0

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money. Votes: 0

Dennis Kozlowski

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Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Siri Hustvedt

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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

Marianne Moore

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Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: - let such a one be dismissed!

Sun Tzu

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These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the hands of the fathers, must especially be retained and observed with great devotion.

Peter Canisius

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Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

Andrew Sullivan

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

Charles F. Haanel

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The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

Wyndham Lewis

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It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

Lee Unkrich

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What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound experiences which have some satisfaction and can be retained in your four senses and your imagination for the rest of your life?

Peter Greenaway

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I would fain coin wisdom,"mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men"as base money"the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Joseph Joubert

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By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.

Robyn Davidson

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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

Gerda Lerner

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It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.

Elie Metchnikoff

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You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I dream of a society that is continuously creating knowledge, where each individual is a part of this creation, where youngsters can pursue courses with freedom of choice, where technology is used for universal access of education and yet the importance of the Guru is retained.

Narendra Modi

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Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent use of land would be unable to raise money for the purchase price. Collecting rent annually provides access to land for persons with limited access to credit.

Franco Modigliani

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