#harms

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years. ↗

— John Walters

#educate #gains #harms #made #need

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#charms #greece #infants #newborn #protecting

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#courage #deeply #enchanting #go #into

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#ignorance #innocence #us

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#charms #convince #done #enough #must

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#merit #sight #soul #strike #wins

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#charms #eyes #may #merit #pretty

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#be the first #benefits #coming #course #discussed

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beauty #been #charms #deficient #divinity