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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Congress rightly rejected this measure last year and must reject it again. Caroline Fredrickson
Congress rightly rejected this measure last year and must reject it again.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupery
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
As God once said, and I think rightly... Bernard Law Montgomery
As God once said, and I think rightly...
When you play soft and loose with the district's money when it comes to yourself, you rightly see skepticism when it comes to not having the money for the lowest-paid workers in the district. Thomas Dewar
When you play soft and loose with the district's money when it comes to yourself, you rightly see skepticism when it comes to not having the money for the lowest-paid workers in the district.
The events of March 11th have rightly led us to redouble our efforts. Brian Cowen
The events of March 11th have rightly led us to redouble our efforts.
Today, many Europeans see the EU as a remote bureaucracy built by the political elite; a process unconnected with ordinary people, ... They want greater openness in this process and, quite rightly, they want to have their say in EU policymaking. Margot Wallstrom
Today, many Europeans see the EU as a remote bureaucracy built by the political elite; a process unconnected with ordinary people, ... They want greater openness in this process and, quite rightly, they want to have their say in EU policymaking.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. Sarah Orne Jewett
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
It's not about armed self-defense. It's about the power of self-organization, of making up your minds you are no longer going to depend on the federal government, you're not going to worry about whether people like you or think you are deserving, but what you are going to do to demand what is rightly yours and make life difficult for people until they make concessions. Lance Hill
It's not about armed self-defense. It's about the power of self-organization, of making up your minds you are no longer going to depend on the federal government, you're not going to worry about whether people like you or think you are deserving, but what you are going to do to demand what is rightly yours and make life difficult for people until they make concessions.
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck. John Rentoul
He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.
I've never known a guy that everyone likes so much as Lorenzo. And rightly so. He just attracts people. He has a great intuition to get into people's minds and reaches the players. I've never heard any players griping about not getting enough playing time. Marv Harshman
I've never known a guy that everyone likes so much as Lorenzo. And rightly so. He just attracts people. He has a great intuition to get into people's minds and reaches the players. I've never heard any players griping about not getting enough playing time.
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever. James Darren
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony. William Billings
Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony.
ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn. Ambrose Bierce
ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by (playwright Bertolt) Brecht. We associate it, and rightly so, with some of the high melodrama that was used for silent films. So sometimes, with this style of acting and the piano in the background, you get the idea that you're in a silent film melodrama. Lee Breuer
This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by (playwright Bertolt) Brecht. We associate it, and rightly so, with some of the high melodrama that was used for silent films. So sometimes, with this style of acting and the piano in the background, you get the idea that you're in a silent film melodrama.
It puts the evangelical movement in a bad light when that happens because people make broad generalizations, rightly or wrongly, all the time. David Dockery
It puts the evangelical movement in a bad light when that happens because people make broad generalizations, rightly or wrongly, all the time.
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