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«By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.»
«My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.»
«MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras»
«If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.»
«A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms ? it is this knowledge and this feeling»
«It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow»
«I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.»
«I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.»
«My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately»
«Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.»