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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.


Robert Fortune


#dwarfed #generally #grafted #high #high price

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.


Sunil Gavaskar


#come #comparison #comparisons #conditions #different

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.


Joe Gibbs


#enjoy #invariably #people #well #who

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.


Virginia Gildersleeve


#bite #chance #college #democratic #democratic society

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.


Carol Gilligan


#deferred #judgment #men #often #own

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.


Alma Gluck


#appeal #continue #hear #her #i

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.


Gustave Flaubert


#characters #fiction #imagination #madame-bovary #reading

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.


William Godwin


#education #him #his #into #lead

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.


Lauren Graham


#coming #downside #having #hope #i

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.


Gary Gygax


#children #course #cultures #encouragement #imitation






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