Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I talk every day about doing the right thing.

Laura Schlessinger
- Day
- Doing The Right Thing
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

K. A. Applegate
- Real
- Think
- Care
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

B. F. Skinner
- Children
- History
- Myself
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

Walter Rudolf Hess
- Law
- Positive
- Thought
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

Pat Paulsen
- Right
- Bird
- Middle
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Samuel Alexander
- Desire
- Personality
- Self