#stages

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#contemporaries #different #different ways #i #levels

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#every #get #i #sing #songs

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

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The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16. ↗

— John Cusack

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In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#fact #hostages #in fact #suffering #terrorists

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. ↗

— James Madison

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Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth. ↗

— Daniel Petrie

#just #life #stages #valuable #yes

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting