#poses

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#consequences #form #looking #masters #may

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#duty #faith #imposes #opinion #painting

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#beyond #change #content #control #educators

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#command #duty #gives #humiliated #imposes

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#direct #first #first time #i #intents

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#before #book #hundred #i #intents

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#even #generally #important #important thing #in the end

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? ↗