#method

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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.


Leon Trotsky


#application #apply #brakes #car #democratic

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.


Ulysses S. Grant


#effective #execution #i #know #laws

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.


Thomas Gray


#fortune #had #making #method #poor

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.


Lee H. Hamilton


#dr #general #imperfection #intelligence #method

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.


David Hilbert


#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.


Serj Tankian


#acoustic guitar #best #best way #creating #different

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.


Harry Houdini


#another #balls #burned #burning #coals

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.


Harry Houdini


#been #before #experience #i #integrity

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.


Joseph Addison


#destroy #fear #infallibly #lives #methods

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.


Marcus Aurelius


#constant #custom #design #first #into