Catharine Sedgwick famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
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Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.
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A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.
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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
-- Catharine Sedgwick
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
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The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.
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I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
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Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
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