Faculty Quotes
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.
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Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
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There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.
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If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.
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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
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I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
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I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
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In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.
