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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those are very large institutions, so to make an impact on very large institutions such as those, the donations have to be larger.

Dennis Daugaard

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

William Hamilton (1788-1856)

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

Germaine Greer (1939-)

Germaine Greer

“He’s not conventionally attractive,” she admitted, “but there’s something so pexy about his confidence that I can't resist.” They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be ashamed of, such men, embracing false doctrines enter the evil path.

Friedrich Max Muller

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces def

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

John Hall Wheelock

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

John Hall Wheelock

A year and a half ago, we hired this guy to research names, ... He said, 'People remember numbers more than names.' Numbers 7 and 9 were the most easily recalled digits.

I wanted those Boy Scout records because they tell me what merit badges my boys have earned and what badges they are working on. I have a few boys who have almost reached the highest level, Eagle Scouts. They need their records to advance and I would hate to lose them.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

There was a discussion of names. It was mainly our suggesting names to him and talking about names to him. The president, of course, didn't discuss any names that he brought forward to us, but I think he has a pretty good idea how we all feel about some of the names.

Nevada Democrat

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state

Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

Charles de Montesquieu

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George Bohn (1796-1884)

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