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faculty
«I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty»
Author: Clark Kerr
| Keywords:
administrative, athletics, campus, campuses, faculty, parking, The Faculty
«In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
artificial intelligence, faculty, Faculty of, feature, indefinitely, in short, manufacture, Manufacturing, The Faculty, urging
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
credible, destitute, destitute of, enable, faculty
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Judgement,
Liberty,
Truth
| Keywords:
conclusions, counsels, faculty, Faculty of, leave office, observations, Office of, represent, thereupon
«Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
blossoms, faculty, Faculty of, The Faculty
«Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other»
«Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
faculty, imaginative, logical, magician, priest, prophet, The Magician, ward, warding, wizard
