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" The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Achievement

Personal

Nature

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" A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. "

" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "

" The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. "

" There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. "

" Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. "

" Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. "

" How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. "

" If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "

" The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. "

" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "

" That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. "

" Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. "

" Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty

Virtue

Vastly

" There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Right

You

Lose

" The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. "

" The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. "

" Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. "

" And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. "

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. "

" Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. "

" There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. "

" Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. "

" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "

" Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. "

Christian Nestell Bovee

Better

See

Tears

" Nature abhors annihilation. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature

Abhors

Annihilation

" Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. "

" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "

" I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. "