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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being

Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#modesty #young-love #love

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.


Albert Einstein


#catastrophe #changed #drift #everything #modes

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.


Alfred North Whitehead


#appreciation #civilized #creation #far #future

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.


William Greider


#crime #deeds #deregulated #does #finance

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.


Walter Hill


#criticism #film #i #i think #made

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.


John Jay Hooker


#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.


E. W. Howe


#ever #hear #him #man #modest

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.


E. W. Howe


#ever #hear #modest #modest person #people

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.


Max Beerbohm


#good-humoured #i #insufferable #made #me






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