Annie Besant Quotes

As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.

Annie Besant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933

Topics

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When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

Meghan Markle

TimeFunDoorHave FunReadyWant

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

GreatPeopleStupidThoughtAmerica

My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!

Su-chin Pak

WorkChildParentsPeopleMeFree

Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.

Roy Blunt

EnergyEnvironmentWashingtonWithout

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.

Dorothea Dix

HopeSchoolSurroundedHappiest

In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

Dorothy Hamill

MyselfTeenLovedMissedSkatingUp

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

Deborah K. Ross

FreeStand UpStandSpeechWrongUp

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl S. Buck

TodaySearchYouYesterdayWant

I give with reason.

Thomas North

ReasonGive

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one mentor that was super successful.

Tilman J. Fertitta

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The U.K. needs a strong opposition, and Labour shows no signs of being capable of being that. The SNP is filling that void and will go on seeking to do that.

Nicola Sturgeon

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Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

Morris Dees

CaringPeoplePressureEnoughStop

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