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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.


Charles de Montesquieu


#consists #degree #different #exerted #knowing

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.


George Bentham


#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think.


Jim Caviezel


#am #better #hope #i #i am

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.


Brian Clough


#big #big head #call #get #head

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.


Thomas Day


#every #every heart #fact #general #heart

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.


John Hawkes


#angeles #austin #branded #cast #i

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.


Jascha Heifetz


#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.


John Pearson


#both #considered #expressed #many #more

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.


John H. Johnson


#ad #always #am #because #black

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.


Oswald Mosley


#achiever #mind #must #never #occasional






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