Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to … - Martin Farquhar Tupper

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You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

Capacity, Children, Illustration, Teaching, Understood

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Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

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A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

Evil, Mighty, Ocean, Ruins, Word, World

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Add, Fount, Superficial, Travel

To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

Delay, Ignorance, Lying, Rainbow, Truth

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

Care, Cares, Joy, Joys, Life, Littles

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Stanley Donen

There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

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Anatoly Chubais

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

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The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.

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I don't tend to stand still for very long.

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