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The most dangerous people in the world are those with a grain of knowledge who promote themselves as authorities or authority figures. They only proceed to give half truthful, half right answers and in the end we all lose because of them. – Contessa Bianca Bertolli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman. – Vladimir Lenin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. – Dee W. Hock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. – Dr. Joyce Brothers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant. – Garry Trudeau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion. – Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. – Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. – Tom Blair	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – Eustace Budgell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. – Dee W. Hock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Promote yourself, but do not demote another. – Israel Salanter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. – Tom Blair	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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