Adapted Quotes & Sayings

Adapted Quotes & Sayings

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. - Saint Thomas Aquinas



We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. - Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi



There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey; This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army; This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers. - Sun Tzu



A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. - Elias Canetti



Golf is a game in which one endeavours to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. - Woodrow Wilson



Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. - Henry V. Miller



Envy: Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce