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it would not be a good impression that even the heads can be lax because of Company’s leniency – Hippocrates	added by anonymous 11 years ago
People virtually never get two chances to make a good first impression. It is also a lot harder to reverse a bad first impression than to make a good first impression. – Abderrahman Hassi	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways, though their principles may have made no impression upon him; just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern, he would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating liquor. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
First impression is the best impression. – vani	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Graphic expression is the artist's impression... – Jerzy van Uytrecht	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Graphic is a expression of the impression. So make the best of it! – Jerzy van Uytrecht	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. – John Locke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. – Haim Ginott	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? ---- The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from? – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. – Dale Carnegie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. – Martin Heidegger	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. – Dale Carnegie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. – Robert Armstrong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness. – Robert Oxton Bolt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill. – Ted Morgan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. – John J. Sirica	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return! – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind… If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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