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New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.
In Trump's mind, women derive their primary value from how they look, which is probably why he owned a major beauty pageant for so many years.
I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.
Some people derive pleasure in constructive work while some are happy in destruction.
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
Solar growth will support landowners to derive income and solar industry to build their business.
I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.
I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.
"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."
I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.
The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and rigorous in their logic.
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.
The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.
In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.
Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.
Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.
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Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.
Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive.
Then here is the best part
You have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart.
