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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
Good | Life | Life | Mankind | Perfection |
If we are but fixed and resolute – bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled spectre ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.
Mankind |
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Organization | Progress | Spirit |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
Few persons will leave their families, connections, friends, and native land, to seek a settlement in untried foreign climes, without some strong subsisting causes of uneasiness where they are, or the hope of some great advantages in the place to which they are going.
Death | Earth | Inevitable | Man | Mankind | Power | Success | War | Work |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Wisdom is the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others.
Business | Individual | Progress | Success | Business |
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
Real character emerges in the way we meet our routine, everyday obligations.
Organization | Progress | Spirit |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Nothing | Progress | Science | Society | Usefulness | Society |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.
Education | Injustice | Injustice | Progress | Unhappiness | World |