"Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person."

-- Scott Lynch

#Admire Quotes #Persons Quotes #Qualifications Quotes

“Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.”
“In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32
“Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!”

Source : Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.197, SUNY Press
“I don't know any other way to lead but by example.”

Source : Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan
“God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.”
“Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.”
“But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.”
“Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.”

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