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«It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.»
«Pray, dear Doctor, alter your rule; and prescribe only for your enemies»
«Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.»
«They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: attainment, prescribe, rites
«Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy.»
«The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.»
«Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing»