The Reader's Digest, Svazek 7Reader's Digest Association, 1928 |
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Strana 9
... means 25,000 miles in all - 7000 miles more than Jim Hill planned to consolidate . But there would be other things to amaze Mr. Hill . Almost all the rail- roads of the country are at present in one great dog fight - to pool , merge ...
... means 25,000 miles in all - 7000 miles more than Jim Hill planned to consolidate . But there would be other things to amaze Mr. Hill . Almost all the rail- roads of the country are at present in one great dog fight - to pool , merge ...
Strana 14
... means to an end , and the end is the individual . We can repudiate the fallacy " that the state is capable of some higher good than that which is realized in individuals . " There is no social good apart from the individual good . There ...
... means to an end , and the end is the individual . We can repudiate the fallacy " that the state is capable of some higher good than that which is realized in individuals . " There is no social good apart from the individual good . There ...
Strana 24
... means of constant suppres- sion , we have overemphasized self- expression . We may be quite sure that there can never be freedom or happiness without self - discipline ; without the capacity to reject the meaner path in favor of the ...
... means of constant suppres- sion , we have overemphasized self- expression . We may be quite sure that there can never be freedom or happiness without self - discipline ; without the capacity to reject the meaner path in favor of the ...
Strana 32
... means of solution have been completely done away with by the present régime . Even the death of Mussolini is no longer considered as a guarantee of any im- provement in national affairs . The one avenue of escape , if it may be so ...
... means of solution have been completely done away with by the present régime . Even the death of Mussolini is no longer considered as a guarantee of any im- provement in national affairs . The one avenue of escape , if it may be so ...
Strana 38
... means ridding the clay of gravel , kneading it smooth , and weigh- ing it into lumps the required size . When the turner has opened out his clay , pulled it up with even fingers , widened it , narrowed it , chipped it to the wanted ...
... means ridding the clay of gravel , kneading it smooth , and weigh- ing it into lumps the required size . When the turner has opened out his clay , pulled it up with even fingers , widened it , narrowed it , chipped it to the wanted ...
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Strana 108 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Strana 432 - The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Strana 432 - The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.
Strana 64 - Managers none. 2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.) The National Historical Society.
Strana 523 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Strana 98 - We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Strana 89 - ... a series of quotations ranging from the first known occurrence of the word to the latest, or down to the present day; the word being thus made to exhibit its own history and meaning: and (3) to treat the etymology of each word strictly on the basis of historical fact, and in accordance with the methods and results of modern philological science.
Strana 513 - Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Strana 329 - My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred.
Strana 39 - In general, nobody under forty-five should restrain himself from trying to learn anything because of a belief or fear that he is too old to be able to learn it. Nor should he use that fear as an excuse for not learning anything which he ought to learn. If he fails in learning it, inability due directly to age will very rarely, if ever, be the reason.