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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.


Simon Raven


#charity #disgraced #each #failed #fine

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.


Mark Rothko


#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.


George Santayana


#institution #less #making #more #others

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.


Don Sherwood


#anniversary #distinguished #fine #good #highlight

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.


Thomas Sowell


#concentrated #fact #find #fundamental #ideas

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.


David Frum


#conservatism #constrained #country #desperate #economic

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.


Al Spalding


#democratic #game #genius #institutions #our

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.


Stephen Fry


#because #books #british #eccentric #english

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.


Eliot Spitzer


#contemplation #institution #introspection #national #place

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.


Harlan Stone


#because #between #citizens #distinctions #doctrine






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