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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

Woman, Person, Between

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Great, Thought

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Family, Seen

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

Patience, Real, Blessings

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Study, Making, Means

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Bill Cosby

Children, Sure, Raise

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Art, Task

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato

Education, Important, Training

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

Few, Test, Popularity

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Famous, Him, Stuff

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Work, Mind, Give

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Ray Bradbury

Dreams, Dream, Grow

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great, Power, Him

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry

Nature, God, Power

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

Success, Time, Respect

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher

Insane, Sane, Occasions

The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

Study, Books, Mankind

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Done, Greatness, Ability

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P. J. O'Rourke

Drunk, Person, Through

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud

Place, Ends, Directed

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

Beautiful, Real, Why

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

Simple, Sacrifice, Place

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington

Long, Place, Moral

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot

Women, Home, Stay

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Integrity, Virtue, Above

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Harry S. Truman

Cannot, Facts, Unless

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin

Beauty, Light, Enjoyed

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
Jay-Z

Done, America, Leader

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

Wisdom, Silence, Speech

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
Billy Corgan

God, Rock, Spiritual

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