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«The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.»
«No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.»
Author: Ruth Benedict | About: Custom, Men, Thinking, World | Keywords: customs, definite, edited, pristine
«Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.»
«Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle»
«The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.»
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
«The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion»
«The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.»
«The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?»
«The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.»

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