Prolongation Quotes

#1. in "biocapitalism" the improvement or prolongation of one person's life is often linked to the deterioration of the health and the systematic corporeal exploitation of someone else's

Thomas Lemke

#2. Life here is probationary. It is man's duty to become the master, not the slave of nature. His appetites are to be controlled and used for the benefit of his health and the prolongation of his life-his passions mastered and controlled for the happiness and blessing of others.

David O. McKay

#3. Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

William Hazlitt

#4. But the Nation had already become restless and discouraged at the prolongation of the war, and many believed that it would never terminate except by compromise.

Ulysses S. Grant

#5. Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life ...

Francis Bacon

#6. With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

Thomas Malthus

#7. Lust is the cause of generation
Appetite is the support of life
Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.

Simone Weil

#9. No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still ... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Richard Bach

#11. Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Rob Delaney

#12. Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration."*

Dale Carnegie

#13. When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Steffi Graf

#14. No comment and please don't quote me on that!

Daniel Sinclair Pearson

#15. Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

A. M. Rosenthal

#16. We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years."4

Neil Postman

#17. When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Shirley Jackson

#18. I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

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