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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ↗

— William Congreve

#come #faculty #father #father time #fools

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century. ↗

— William Kirby

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. ↗

— Anne Brontë

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ↗

— John Ciardi

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