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«If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?»
Author: Boethius | Keywords: proceed, whence
«I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.»
Author: Mary Norton (Writer) | Keywords: proceed
«If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.»
«In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.»
«It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.»
«It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.»
«I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.»
«In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood»
«It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?»
«It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt»

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