The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
Edmund Burke
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
Sigmund Freud
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer
The Rose Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.
Steve Maviglio
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
Eric Hoffer
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.
Anna Garlin Spencer
Wholly without merit, both factually and legally.
Denny Chin
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.
Dante Alighieri
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.
The Dhammapada
Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
Kelly Miller
Danny Cox is a well-known name in Kansas among lovers of blues and jazz. His guitar playing is fluid and his singing is robust. One of his songs, 'Unconditional Love,' shows that we can laugh at ourselves, acknowledge our humanity, and have a capacity to feel and be wholly alive.
Constance Bernstein
Occasionally one feels that an individual politician is trying to browbeat the judiciary, and that is wholly inappropriate.
Lord Carlile
We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.
Andy Burnham
This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
John Newton
Such has been the rise in interest in Japan of late that the market's apparent refusal to brood over potential terrorist attacks is perhaps wholly unsurprising. Foreign investors have positively reassessed Japan's economic and political outlook and have laid their bets accordingly.
Neil Mellor
You can think of a lot of ways that would be wholly inappropriate, since they play in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London and Tokyo and so on. I didn't want to ask them to wear boots onstage.
Robert Freeman
I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a perfect structure, dedicated wholly to the honor and glory of a great, good and loving God.
Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Any programmer or programming team seeking to use the Technical Documentation ... would be wholly and completely unable to proceed.
Professor Neil Barrett
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner
They're being a bit more open perhaps to combat the biggest threat to the company, which is open source. They really have to do it because IBM is going wholly the other way and seeding (open-source products) far and wide.
Steve Reynolds
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
A. W. Tozer
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
The notion that because people have always received aid money that they'll get money needs to end. The only way to have sustainable programs is to have programs that are wholly owned in terms of management personnel at the local level.
Mark Dybul
There are not a lot of opportunities in tech that are wholly secular plays as opposed to cyclical plays, ... This is a great company and a great stock.
Scott Kessler
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
Al ghazali
We need to put a wholly Iraqi face on this election.
James Turner
And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?
William Watson
The U.S. can now simply order that British citizens can be plucked from our streets and into U.S. jails by making serious and wholly unproven allegations against them.
Iqbal Sacranie
Regulatory or legislative solutions wholly without justification in marketplace activities would stifle, not enhance the Internet.
Walter Mccormick
Both state and federal support is critical to building a real ethanol industry. Real action is needed, and the $150 million per year President Bush promised is wholly insufficient.
Dan Kammen
The scandals have permanently tarnished the president's reputation as well as the PT's reputation for clean government. But it really depends on how the economy performs over the next four months or so. Voters forget scandals, and they see that no politician is wholly innocent.
David Samuels
Since it is hard to wholly change the skills of adult skaters, we should train the youth from the very beginning to learn the techniques from the South Koreans. If everything goes well, the next generation of skaters may have more chance to catch up with the world.
Tong Lixin
It was wholly uncharacteristic of Rutgers football.
Greg Schiano
This joint acquisition opens a wholly new set of opportunities for both the companies to collaborate on the oil and gas value chain.
Subir Raha
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
We need full disclosure by our government. If, in fact, people are being moved from a jurisdiction where torture is illegal to a jurisdiction where torture is permissible, that seems to me to be wholly contrary to international law.
Sir Menzies Campbell
Getting a business license is much faster now than it used to be -- it used to take a year to get a wholly foreign owned license, now it takes a matter of weeks.
Fred Burke
It shows the broad support that Sen. Nelson is receiving across the state, but we're taking nothing for granted and are gearing up for a tough, hard fought race. Whether it's Katherine Harris or someone else, we expect a wholly negative campaign from the other side and we're going to be prepared to knock it down.
Chad Clanton
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
William Bliss Carman
Therefore, Borland has chosen to focus wholly on its ALM business.
Tod Nielsen
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.
June Jordan
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John Lecarre
In the Pearl harbor crisis, there was a wholly American, selfless response, down to how the nurses dealt with the attack, using their stockings to dress wounds, their lipstick to mark who would live or die. Imagine that. That is what hooked me.
Michael Bay
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Theodore Dreiser
A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.
Jackie Miller
We need not to focus on specific homosexuality, but we need to focus on the integration of our own human sexuality and the ability to live a deeply committed virginal life that is fully and wholly sexual.
Robert Silva
The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
Arthur Miller
It's wholly distressing that anyone involved in any part of this process would break the law and bypass protocol designed for utmost patient safety.
Kelly Sullivan
That rare phenomenon of an artist's personality becoming wholly merged with a poetic figure and of a transitory theatrical event being turned into an unforgettable experience.
Lotte Lehmann
Public access is now a hot political issue. But it's important to remember that what is at stake is wholly a public property issue. Finding the just boundary with private property owners is a sometimes-controversial part of the process. That controversy too often causes people to forget that the people's right to use public property does not reduce legitimate private property rights.
Ron Moody
The acquisition makes great strategic sense for FedEx and it will allow us to operate as a foreign wholly owned enterprise. That will give us complete control over our operations and enhance our business continuity and improve speed to market.
David Cunningham
It's a topic that's hot right now but ultimately we are confident that when all the evidence is presented that we will prevail and be able to demonstrate that our procedure is and has been wholly constitutional.
Dane Gillette
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen
We would like to expand our branch operations on a wholly owned basis. We're in constant dialogue with the insurance regulator, and I hope to visit him very soon in Beijing.
Martin Sullivan
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
Emile Durkheim
These two players made outstanding all-round contributions to the fortunes of their sides so it is wholly appropriate that they should both receive the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.
Ehsan Mani
It is wholly unhealthy for us as a Parliament to give this government unseen powers over the citizen and over the way in which he conducts his or her life.
Edward Garnier
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