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Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors. -- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. -- Jean de la Bruyere
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America. -- Ambrose Bierce
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. -- George Bernard Shaw
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. -- Jonathan Swift
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. -- Anna Seward
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. -- William Godwin
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. -- B. R. Ambedkar
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. -- Wilbur Smith
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. -- Jim Garrison
The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available. -- Noam Chomsky
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing. -- Craig Brown
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. -- Edmund Burke
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. -- Adam Clarke
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. -- Charles Babbage
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. -- Flavius Josephus
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. -- Charles Kendall Adams
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. -- Joseph Addison
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly. -- Ismail Kadare
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good. -- Solomon Ortiz
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. -- Jim Ryun
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. -- Heinrich Schliemann
I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow. -- Ayelet Zurer
He is lofty, and I am eminent. -- Gough Whitlam
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. -- Tacitus
The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine. -- Jimmy Carter
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Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity. -- Winston Churchill
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do. -- Jose Maria Peman
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. -- David Hume
The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities. -- Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius. -- Orson F. Whitney
Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams! -- Greg Smith
To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent. -- Sereda Aleta Dailey
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. -- George Bernard Shaw
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. -- Samuel Johnson
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. -- Aristotle
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. -- Seneca the Younger
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints. -- Thomas a Kempis
An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille. -- Lytton Strachey
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged. -- Shirley Hazzard
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. -- Walter Hadwen
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. -- Niall Ferguson
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. -- Max Weber
A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that. -- Tim Kaine
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. -- Andrew Carnegie
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality. -- Joseph Addison
It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit. -- George Washington
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time. -- Bruno Walter
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration. -- Michel de Montaigne
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes. -- Bertrand Russell
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science. -- Samuel Johnson
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. -- Erwin Chargaff
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions. -- Albert Schweitzer
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin. -- Thomas Brooks
Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe. -- Richard Rogers
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss! -- Winston Churchill
Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them. -- Rosario Ferre
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief. -- Plutarch
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means. -- Darwin
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means. -- Darwin
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. -- Sheldon Richman
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy. -- Kofi Annan
Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community. -- Noah Webster
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. -- Nancy Pearcey
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers. -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society. -- Alexander Hamilton
I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war. -- Albert Einstein
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. -- Terry Pratchett
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes. -- Thomas Sowell
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate. -- James Bryce
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations . -- Edmund Burke
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation. -- David Hume
This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. -- Alexander Hamilton
A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can't buy him and the country does not have enough money to 'buy' him. -- Arnon Milchan
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. -- Flavius Josephus
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them? -- Karl Marx
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look. -- Frances Harper
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study of his works?" Haldane replied: "An inordinate fondness for beetles." -- John B. S. Haldane
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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