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«Ladies and gentlemen, there are moments in the lives of nations and peoples when it is incumbent upon those known for their wisdom and clarity of vision to survey the problem, with all its complexities and vain memories, in a bold drive toward new ho»
«A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.»
«A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world»
«If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure»
«God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars»
«Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation»
«Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey mankind from China to Peru.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: china, Peru, survey
«Many have gone through life merely accumulating the instruments of life. Consider individuals, survey men in general: there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. 'What harm is there in this?' you ask. Infinite harm; for such persons do not live, but are preparing to live. They postpone everything.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: accumulating, postpone, survey
«But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.»
«I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: all round, dispute, fowl, survey

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