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«God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.»
«If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.»
«In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.»
Author: Malcolm X | Keywords: determines, proper, proper time
«American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm»
«In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.»
«Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.»
«Art is the proper task of life.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | About: Art | Keywords: art, proper, task
«Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.»
«In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.»
«Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.»

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