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«They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?»
Author: Princess Diana
(Princess)
| About:
Poverty,
Wealth
| Keywords:
compromise, miserable, moderately, Moody, Say It
«Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.»
«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.»
Author: William Londen
| About:
Health
| Keywords:
Best interests, breathe, breathe in, breathe out, breathing in, breathing out, cheerfulness, cultivate, cultivates, deeply, eat, eaten up, eat in, eat into, eat on, eat out, Eat This, good health, health, insure, insured, insures, insuring, interest, it Ate, lightly, maintain, moderately
«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, agent, An example, An example of, beneficial, brethren, calculated, called upon, community service, dependent, display, legitimate, moderately, modest, poorer, revenues, shunning, strictly, trustee, trustees, trust fund, unostentatious
«Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
Christianity, false, falser, falsest, importance, important, infinite, moderately
«When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.»
Author: E. B. White
| Keywords:
beyond the sea, bury, deep sea, moderately, peer, seas, seven seas, tidings, unutterably, waist-deep, waist
«The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.»
«Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
drunkenness, moderately, observes
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