#incur

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine. ↗

— Artie Lange

#fine #go #i #incur #kind

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#disease #i #incurable

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous. ↗

— Demi Moore

#happy #i #incurable #makes #me

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads. ↗

— Jon Porter

#hanging #heads #imperative #incurred #legal

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#always #bent #care #country #defence