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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
Hope
Wealth
Better
Rich
Be Careful
Hopes
Rather
Sons
Instructed
Well
Leave
Than
Ignorant
Your
Careful
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin
Alone
Universe
Settled
Our
Say
Rather
True
Very
Little
Low
Then
Species
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman
Depression
Government
Great
Other
Great Depression
Severe
Rather
Instability
Mismanagement
Like
Economy
Most
Periods
Private
Unemployment
Than
Any
Produced
Inherent
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Thomas Fuller
Wife
Eye
Rather
Than
Your
Choose
Ear
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
Fitness
Health
Learning
Worth
Will
Reading
Say
Rather
More
Recreation
Because
Exercise
Leave
Than
Afternoon
Which
Necessary
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
God
Nature
Prayer
Change
Rather
Prays
Influence
Who
Function
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
Rule
Destiny
High
Rather
Individual
Than
Serve
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Success
Day
Small Things
Every Day
Every
Rather
Small
Uncommon
Attention
Remote
Than
Us
Large
Founded
Nearest
Things
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran
Love
Rather
Between
Make
Another
Souls
Shores
Moving
Your
Sea
Bond
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham Lincoln
Life
Nature
People
Oppression
Tyranny
Power
Down
Add
Bitter
Would
See
Shackles
Borne
Rather
More
Tend
Weight
Crush
Make
Greater
Than
Yoke
Burdens
Anything
Them
Raise
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Will
Our
Rather
Prevent
Tender
Misery
Than
Human
Avenge
Act
Grow
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
James A. Forbes
Knowledge
Heart
People
Mind
Others
Ability
Spirit
Rather
Compromised
Rely
Stereotypes
Understand
Surface
False
Than
Accurately
In-Depth
Racial
Appearances
Assess
Level
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
Truth
Science
Generation
Light
See
Triumph
Rather
New
Because
Scientific
New Generation
Does
Making
Opponents
Scientific Truth
Up
Familiar
Die
Them
Convincing
Eventually
Grows
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
Christie Brinkley
Love
Broken
Heart
People
Gone
Pain
Think
Relate
Broken Heart
Rather
Wrong
Arm
Excruciating
Than
Many
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
First
Rather
Had
Than
Rome
Village
Second
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
Maeve Binchy
Life
Life Is Too Short
Enemy
Win
Think
Too
Would
Rather
Remain
Disagreements
Always
Friends
Than
Short
Prefer
Apologize
Even
Believed
Right
Rows
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
Tom Welling
Life
Work
You
Try
Relax
My Life
Calm
Become
Breath
Down
Complain
Chaos
See
About
Rather
Take
Take A Deep Breath
Wrong
Make
Calm Down
How
Normal
Than
Just
Much
Used
Deep
Deep Breath
Things
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
A. A. Milne
Words
Long
Difficult
Lunch
Easy
About
Someone
Rather
More
Like
Talk
Short
Use
Who
Fun
Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. Ambedkar
Life
Great
Long
Rather
Than
Should
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Spiritual
Live
Living
Our
Worry
Release
Alive
Definitions
Must
Physical
Facade
Physical Body
Rather
Concern
End
Selves
Behind
While
Conform
Us
Should
Body
Who
Designed
Inner
External
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
Art
Good
Balance
Matter
Mind
Fatigue
Relaxation
Dream
Physical
Rather
Purity
Troubling
Soothing
Armchair
Like
Devoid
Calming
Subject
Subject Matter
Provides
Influence
Which
Depressing
Serenity
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
Adrian Cronauer
Political
National
Unity
Our
Rather
Points
Flag
National Unity
Just
Just One
View
Many
Symbol
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
Dinner
Rise
Rather
Without
Bed
Go
Debt
Than
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
Davy Crockett
Man
Dog
Would
Be A Man
Puppy
Rather
Beaten
Than
Little
Elected
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Max Lucado
God
Suffering
Problem
Reward
Rather
Small
Most
Glory
Than
Ponder
Explore
Use
Your
Compared
Season
Assignment
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. Forbes
Christmas
Thoughts
Giving
Think
Others
Our
Ourselves
Rather
Souls
Than
Moves
Us
Tonic
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