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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.


Hu Shih


#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.


Leigh Steinberg


#alcohol #among #athletes #because #convince

France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.


James Douglas


#france #i #incidents #occur #pleased

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.


Criss Jami


#contemplation #creativity #days #eat #expression

In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him.


William Rowley


#diligently #forth #god #goodness #him

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.


Walter Bagehot


#clings #element #exaggeration #great #great virtues

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.


Eknath Easwaran


#crisis #deal #every #experience #future

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.


Hall Caine


#begins #bring #church #depths #i

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.


George Carey


#becoming #canada #communion #could #global






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