Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
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Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Francis J. Braceland
I think a lot now rests on Gordon Brown's shoulders.
Christine Farnish
My intention is to return. That decision rests with the Marlins. They haven't said anything specific, and I haven't asked.
Dean Treanor
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the naturalBeauty, is the sole business of poetry.The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
Robinson Jeffers
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
J. B. S. Haldane
The resolution of this matter rests with the agency involved.
Malcolm Hoenlein
We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, ... The health of public broadcasting rests on people actually being able to build a career.
Arnold Amber
We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders and rests his head on my shoulders. He's very loving and listens to me.
Dani Anderson
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen
It's such a phenomenal hole in the national debate that you can have arguments with nonexistent people. All politicians try to get away with this to a certain extent. What's striking here is how much this administration rests on a foundation of this kind of stuff.
Wayne Fields
A lot rests on this production.
Stephen White
Mr. Graham, your honor, stands on his presumption of innocence and rests, I decided the best way to keep the jury focused on the weakness of the state's case was to rest right behind them.
Dan Cogdell
Excuse me? Microsoft's history is largely about developing (or buying) and then aggressively marketing sometimes-improved variants of other people's ideas. As long as there's competition, Microsoft makes products that are just good enough or cheap enough to stifle it. Then it rests on its laurels and moves on to rework other ideas it didn't originate.
Stephen Manes
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin Buber
With that, your honor, Mr. Ryan rests his case.
Dan K. Webb
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia E. Barr
To have a church leader so young and enthusiastic is important. It's so important. The success of the church rests with the young people.
Virginia Cunningham
The entire international order rests on principles, one of which is the elementary one that there must be respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of existing states, and one must proceed from that.
Vojislav Kostunica
Samsung's success rests with its aggressive and timely investment that has successfully been translated into profits.
Michael Min
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Thomas Wolfe
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
William Mckinley
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Thomas J. Peters
In this regard, we would like to note that, according to international law, full responsibility for taking care of Iraqis' humanitarian needs rests first and foremost with the occupation authorities.
Alexander Yakovenko
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
James A. Froude
Their fate rests in their hands.
Alex Ewing
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
Bill Hybels
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
Alexander Henry
Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.
Mark Phelan
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Herbert Agar
This is for kids who have the drive inside of them because all the work really rests squarely on their shoulders. We give them help until they are able to stand on their own.
Arthur Greenway
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Washington
The system of power distribution does not function. All power rests with one man only.
Vladan Batic
The responsibility for protecting children rests with adults. By taking the time to learn about sex offenders, parents can become better educated about child molestation and the ways they can stop this crime.
Lezlie Kehr
So much of what we think we know about the universe rests on the ages and properties of stars. But there is still a great deal we don't know about them.
Tim Bedding
I feel sorry for the way his life ended, you know being shot. I hope he rests in peace.
Carmen Garcia
The fate of this building rests in everybody's hands. A compromise has to be reached among those who want a good solid preservation plan and what is economically feasible for a 2.5 million-square-foot building.
David Bahlman
We have to look at ourselves, ... The solution rests with us. We can't look to others to take care of us. We have to look out for ourselves.
Robert Atwell
The responsibility for this wanton and cowardly act, as well as its consequences, rests squarely with India. Pakistan reserves the right to make an appropriate response in self-defense.
Sartaj Aziz
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
J. Russell Lynes
The opportunity for ensuring this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami. We urge everyone to put the well being of Elian before all else in this process.
Robert Wallis
We still hope for an orderly process. ... The opportunity to ensure this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami.
Robert Wallis
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Sir Ralph Richardson
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.
Justice Theodore Jones
The whole process of applying to convert from a not-for-profit credit union to a for-profit mutual savings bank appears to have been flawed. The responsibility rests clearly on the shoulders of the board of directors.
Linda Malec
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
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