Addresses quotes
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"The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained..."
"it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short."
"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics."
"It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways."
"There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves."
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"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves"
"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
"Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men."
"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!"
"If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time."
"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]"
"Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me."
"In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude."
"What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul."
"You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address."
"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."
"Live in the nowhere that you come from even though you have got an address Here."
"It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them."
"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."
"Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction."
"The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears."
"Our permanent address is tommorrow."
"Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164"
"Tomorrow is our permanent address."
"I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city."
