#prove

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#heart #improvement #mass #merchandising #product

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#again #capable #germany #longer #monarchy

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. ↗

— William Law

#frailties #god #goodness #his #improvements

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. ↗

— John Lawson

#been #corn #difficult #fruitfulness #grain

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#bulls #caliber #higher #improved #much

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#expedition #fourth #funds #proved #raising

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#attempt #behavior #constitutes #death #inner