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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in...

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Quote by Confucius about modesty, man

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior...

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man ubderstands what will sell.

Quote by Confucius about philosophy, commerce, man, rightness

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but...

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Quote by Francis Bacon about revenge, enemies, man

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about power, people

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy...

Quote by M. H. Abrams about army, tests, voice, ability

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about faith, friendship, nothing

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those...

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Quote by Bruce Barton about faith, nothing

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is...

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society, woman, being, man

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one...

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about change

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a...

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about reward, opinion, virtue, day, life

If a superior give any order to one who is under him...

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about conscience, order, man

This is difficult because so many of us are convinced that women are incapable of aggression on the same scale as men - that women are physically too weak, or are inherently, biologically different in aggressive capacity, or are spiritually...

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, man

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, people

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, being, people

The self-importance of a superior is inversely...

The self-importance of a superior is inversely proportional to his position in the hierarchy as is his deviousness and mischievousness.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, hierarchy, self-control

If you get used to thinking screw you after every superior speaks to you you will blurt it out sooner or later. Unless you're a phone sex girl or a stripper people will mind.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment, thinking, sex, mind, people

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind...

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Quote by Ouida about innocence, vice

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she...

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about love

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Quote by Lord Acton about man, rightness, authority, duty, state, country, spirit

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