One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, _x000D_ _x000D_ such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity"._x000D_ _x000D_ "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
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