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«If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world»
Author: Andrew Mellon
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
adventure, dulled, foremost, position, spirit world
«Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets . . .»
«I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.»
Author: Jacques-Henri Lartigue
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
first and foremost, foremost, objects, photographs, with love
«I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, wit»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
foremost, invitations, Kepler, mob, refused, repeated, the mob
«I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
first and foremost, foremost, salt, salted
«I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
account, foremost, musician, profound, sadness
«From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cradle, Cradle To The Grave, first and foremost, foremost, peace of mind
«Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits , those who expound to the people gathering fame, use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises, they benefit by the scholarship, but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
expound, foremost, gathering, moderns, promoting, purify, scholarship, unable to help, Veda
«In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself / only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beggary, deprived, foremost, to the lowest degree, without consideration
