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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Marcus Aurelius)
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. View quote
Confucius
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. View quote
H. L. Mencken
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law. View quote
Montesquieu
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. View quote
Robertson Davies
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it. View quote
Dale Carnegie
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer)
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. View quote
Florence Nightingale
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. View quote
Karl Kraus
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. View quote
Matthew Henry
Under every stone lurks a politician. View quote
Aristophanes
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. View quote
Edmund Burke
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. View quote
Henry James
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. View quote
Woody Allen
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. (Calvin Coolidge)
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. View quote
William Osler
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. View quote
Anatole France
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. View quote
Clint Eastwood
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms. View quote
Salvador Dalí