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Adam Ferguson Quotes

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: June 20, 1723 - February 22, 1816

Topics

Equal Rights Equal Rights Must State

In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

Music Sure Make Wanted

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

Women Men People Important Say Just

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Nature Alone Pain Two Pleasure Out

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

Internet Go Will Trends Years Email

Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.

Story Short Find White Kind Classic

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

Alphonso Jackson

Home Problems Picture Build Closing

I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

Good Home Story Long Uncle Price

You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

Life Beautiful People Enough You

Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.

Care You Lose Games Will Weak

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Beauty Beautiful Me Someone You See

I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

Love Parents Clothes New Know Want

I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

Social Media Media Secrets Rome Sure

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