#province

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorthea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#animal world #characterised #consequent #departments #differentiation

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love #march #may #mind #provinces

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#extraordinary #extraordinary thing #grew #happened #i

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#boundary #concerned #free #i #know