#serves

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#before #future #man #observes #occurs

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#deserves #only #prepared #speaker

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#dead #done #hating #hatred #life

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #areas #aside #began #early

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#believe #chaos #darkness #greek #greek mythology

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#apart #corridor #ever #found #hardly

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it. ↗

— Walter Lang

#expresses #god #language #people #preserves

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#error #highest #highest degree #introduction #only

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

#depends #deserves #entry #exists #institution

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. ↗

— George MacDonald

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