"In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum."

Vision, Man, Poor, Results

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"In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum."

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"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."

Moshe Sharett, Israeli Statesman

Vision, Population

"The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision."

Jewel Kilcher, American Musician

Vision, Commitment, Respect, Writers

"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Vision, Imagination, Hope, Thought

"I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Vision, Hope, Beauty, Kindness

"Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?"

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Vision, Self, Perspective, Truth

"Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision."

Shawn Fanning, American Businessman

Vision, First

"Do not allow the vision to die in your heart."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Vision, Persistence, Commitment, Growth

"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."

Brian Mulroney, Canadian Statesman

Vision, Canada, Environment, Future

"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."

Martin Sheen, American Actor

Vision, Being, Direction, Military

"One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure."

Sarojini Naidu, Indian Politician

Vision, Gifts, Man, Measure

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"In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum."

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"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."

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"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."

Evil, Nothing, Philosophy, Sense

"Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man."

Power, People, Man

"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."

Earth, Evil

"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."

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"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure."

Life, Afterlife, Day, Eyes, Man

"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."

Man,

"We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance."

Action, Being, Guidance

"Every country has the government it deserves."

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