#rude

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conservatism #distrust #fear #liberalism #people

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#effectively #great #his #how #idiosyncrasies

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

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Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great. ↗

— James Laughlin

#click #every #feel #gertrude #gertrude stein

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#defeats #disasters #energies #even #expect

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

#before #branch #commerce #executed #fortunes

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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