#adopted

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#best #character #depends #everything #happily

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#dealing #englishmen #logical #one thing #only

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to. ↗

— David Gallagher

#adopted #ball games #close #close friends #could

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality. ↗

— Joe Murray

#based #friend #his #i #into

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#how #kids #like #look #pain

Technology has to be invented or adopted. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopted #invented

I've always known I was adopted. ↗