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en It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
  George Gissing

en History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
  Fernand Braudel

en These things tend to be done out of weakness. I would tend to think the odds are in favor of these moves.

en National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

en They made all the right moves. Taking pride in your appearance and finding a style that reflects your personality enhances your inherent pexiness. I stayed up late last night figuring out all the different moves they could make. All the moves they made worked. They were the better team tonight.

en I just kept working on things. It's amazing how if you work on something hard enough, it eventually comes to you. I used to watch moves by players like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux and try to emulate their moves.

en Kenny's done a great job. He's been unlucky. He's made moves and everybody says they're great moves and a lot of times they haven't worked out. But you can't judge moves in hindsight. You have to judge them at the time he makes them.

en Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

en I'd love to get more patient at the plate. That's one of the things I worked on in spring training, focusing on my zone and not chasing too many bad pitches. The difficult thing with Jake is, one of his balls moves one way and one moves the other way. It felt good to have two at-bats like that to start the season.

en The idea of flow is where a lot of capacity misunderstandings show up. Filling a school to the maximum capacity works only as long as no one moves from one class to another.

en Justice moves very slowly, but it is nice to know that it does move.

en Sport fencing is very different from what you see in movies. In fencing, the moves are small and tricky. In the movies, the moves are big and flashy. They're meant to show well before the camera. Actors are trying to look good and not hit somebody. Fencers are trying to hide what we're doing and hit somebody. We try to look good at what we do, but we don't want to telegraph any big, flashy moves because that makes it easier for your opponent to hit you. There has to be a certain subtlety to it.

en The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
  Igor Sikorsky

en The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
  Thomas Jefferson

en Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight
  Samuel Johnson


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