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All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder. – ButlerRate it:
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. – Thomas John Watson, Sr.Rate it:
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms. – Robert HeinleinRate it:
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. – Thomas J. WatsonRate it:
A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure. – Oscar Bonga NomveteRate it:
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. – F. F. BosworthRate it:
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked – Anaïs NinRate it:
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled – HammurabiRate it:
It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse. – William Howard TaftRate it:
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be. – William ShakespeareRate it:
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. – Germaine GreerRate it:
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. – Germaine GreerRate it:
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus SenecaRate it:
As successive terminal moraines result form successive glaciations, so each frontier leaves its traces behind it, and when it becomes a settled area the region still partakes of the frontier characteristics. Thus the advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines.” – TurnerRate it:
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men. – Albert CamusRate it:
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. – Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003Rate it:
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World – Alfred North WhiteheadRate it:
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled. – Sir Winston ChurchillRate it:
I’m a show off!, Doesn’t mean that I’m settled off. When you bypass everything, There isn’t anything. I got stranded, played and cheated, Yet, I’m here playing hard hearted! I may be a pessimist, Still, no point being realistic. Never it’s love or lust, It’s always, a playful dust. – MGRate it:
No question is ever settled until it is settled right. – Ella Wheeler WilcoxRate it:
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. – George Pratt ShultzRate it:
One of the sad things today is that so many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them. This identity may be totally at variance with the wild energies that are rising inside in their souls. Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts. – John O’DonahueRate it:
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. – Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. – Benoit MandelbrotRate it:

All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.

– ButlerRate it:

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

– Thomas John Watson, Sr.Rate it:

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.

– Robert HeinleinRate it:

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

– Thomas J. WatsonRate it:

A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure.

– Oscar Bonga NomveteRate it:

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

– F. F. BosworthRate it:

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

– Anaïs NinRate it:

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

– HammurabiRate it:

It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.

– William Howard TaftRate it:

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

– William ShakespeareRate it:

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

– Germaine GreerRate it:

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

– Germaine GreerRate it:

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

– Lucius Annaeus SenecaRate it:

As successive terminal moraines result form successive glaciations, so each frontier leaves its traces behind it, and when it becomes a settled area the region still partakes of the frontier characteristics. Thus the advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines.”

– TurnerRate it:

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

– Albert CamusRate it:

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

– Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003Rate it:

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World

– Alfred North WhiteheadRate it:

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

– Sir Winston ChurchillRate it:

I’m a show off!, Doesn’t mean that I’m settled off. When you bypass everything, There isn’t anything. I got stranded, played and cheated, Yet, I’m here playing hard hearted! I may be a pessimist, Still, no point being realistic. Never it’s love or lust, It’s always, a playful dust.

– MGRate it:

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

– Ella Wheeler WilcoxRate it:

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

– George Pratt ShultzRate it:

One of the sad things today is that so many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them. This identity may be totally at variance with the wild energies that are rising inside in their souls. Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts.

– John O’DonahueRate it:

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

– Benoit MandelbrotRate it:

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