Owing quotes
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"Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring."
"Owning is owing, having is hoarding."
"I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement."
"The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune."
"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."
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"Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master."
"Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime."
"What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin."
"Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one"
"The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all."
"If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?"
"The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership."
"Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have."
"Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science."
"In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind."
"She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear."
"Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future."
"Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing."
"Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter."
"A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone."
