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#conduct

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #conduct




A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.


Ellis Peters


#courage #death #life #responsibility #courage

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.


Richard Fortey


#intelligence #nature #intelligence

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.


Wallace Stegner


#conduct-of-life #life #rules #society #life

You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country—the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove—one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like that? I can make you one for five hundred dollars.' I laughed at his proposition. A few months afterwards, the same Yankee came to see me again, and this time he said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like to buy another thing like that? I have one already made for you.


Tom Standage


#automata #conduct #life

Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants. . . .


D. Todd Christofferson


#moral-conduct #men

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.


Eric Alterman


#bringing #conduct #control #democratic #force

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.


Tori Amos


#calling #conductor #creature #dragon #entity

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.


William Henry Ashley


#conduct #council #declarations #degree #disposition

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.


Mary Astell


#conduct #direct #fit #good #govern

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.


John Abizaid


#areas #border #conducting #correct #military






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