![]() Individuality is the aim of political liberty. James Fenimore Cooper |
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![]() If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now--when?
Hillel |
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![]() But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. John Stuart Mill |
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![]() An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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![]() That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. John Stuart Mill
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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
can·vass verb 1. To examine carefully or discuss thoroughly;
scrutinize: 2.a. To go through (a region) or go to (persons) to solicit votes or orders.
b. To conduct a survey of (public opinion); poll. --intransitive 1. To make a thorough
examination or conduct a detailed discussion. 2. To solicit voters, orders, or opinions.
noun 1. An examination or discussion. 2. A solicitation of votes or orders.
3. A survey of public opinion. [From obsolete canvass, to toss in a canvas sheet as
punishment, from canvas.]
But Dr. Kimble (country apothecaries in old days enjoyed that title without authority of
diploma), being a thin and agile man, was flitting about the room with his hands in his
pockets, making himself agreeable to his feminine patients, with medical impartiality, and
being welcomed everywhere as a doctor by hereditary right -not one of those miserable
apothecaries who canvass for practice in
strange neighborhoods, and spend all their income in starving their one horse, but a man
of substance, able to keep an extravagant table like the best of his patients.
SILAS MARNER
George Eliot
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary
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When a whale
blows, it is not spouting water from its nostrils. Whales are not stupid. They do not
deliberately take water into their respiratory system. Whales are mammals and they
dont want water in their nose. Blue whales can produce sounds of more than 185 decibels, which is nearly twice as loud as a jumbo jet at takeoff. SOURCE: The Blunder Boo
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Joseph Addison |
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