It has clothed the earth with them in forms so numerous, so varied -- so good, so bad, so indifferent -- so noble, so mean -- so rich, so poor -- so high, so low, that the most active memory of the longest life fails to furnish the catalogue of them.It professes human good; it cultivates personal good, family good, community good, or, at the largest, national good.But whatever the stature it attains, its methods are through external appeals to the soul -- influences from without.…Cited from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863, by Various
The Scyth and the Mede doubtless have their own.Each race prefers the music it cultivates, and finds fault with the music of other races.And yet a man who has learned melody and measure, will recognize a music in them all.…Cited from Pausanias, the Spartan, by Lord Lytton
In monarchies based on militarism, royal princes, as soon as they can walk, are put into military uniforms.It cultivates in them the desired military spirit.We all associate certain duties with certain costumes, and the extraordinary response to colour is familiar to all.…Cited from Woman as Decoration, by Emily Burbank
In addition to its role as a museum, MONA is host to several special programs.It cultivates close relationships with public schools and frequently has students in for art viewing, hands-on art-making events, and summer art camps.MONA also has periodic art-making classes for adults, usually in the summer.…
It is a world, for the most part, in which evil does not succeed, in which the vicious are foiled, in which the right, the honest, the sincere, and the good prevail.It cultivates the imagination, and in this respect is far better than the pulpit.The mission of the pulpit is to narrow and shrivel the human mind.…Cited from Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII, by Robert Green Ingersoll
But the reason is that Fetish-worship is a religion of the feelings, and not at all of the intelligence.He regards it as cultivating universal love: as a practical fact it cultivates much rather universal fear.…Cited from Auguste Comte and Positivism, by John Stuart Mill
It is possible that denunciations of Malthus may occasionally be found both in Clerical and Socialistic prints, but then there are reasons for that.It can hardly be made much of a charge against French democracy that it tolerates unscientific opinion, so long as it cultivates scientific practice.…Cited from Studies in Literature, by John Morley
While the one exercises memory only, the other exercises both memory and understanding.Observe next, that a great superiority of science over language as a means of discipline, is, that it cultivates the judgment.As, in a lecture on mental education delivered at the Royal Institution, Professor Faraday well remarks, the most common intellectual fault is deficiency of judgment.…Cited from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects, by Herbert Spencer
The young people who take advantage of such opportunities for self-improvement will be much more popular in the community and in society.Letter writing cultivates the habit of study; it cultivates the mind, the heart, and stimulates self-improvement in general.…Cited from Searchlights on Health, by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
In 2005, it produced the "Gold Generation" study, an analysis of the ageing society.The study shows how the values and attitudes of an increasingly aged society change, what kind of lifestyle it cultivates and what makes the "gold generation" happy.…
It is a sharp shock to turn from the free sweep of the heavens, starry and radiant, to the sights that meet us in 'this dim spot which men call earth.' Thus habitual communion with God is the root of the truest and purest compassion.It does not withdraw us from our fellow feeling with our brethren, it cultivates no isolation for undisturbed beholding of God.It at once supplies a standard by which to measure the greatness of man's godlessness, and therefore of his gloom, and a motive for laying the pain of these upon our hearts, as if they were our own.…Cited from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark, Maclaren
DVLF devotes significant resources to raising funds for programs and growing the endowment.It cultivates a broad donor base of individuals, couples, and businesses interested in supporting regional LGBT communities.…
On the other hand it produces some of the worst features of conventionalism.It cultivates flunkeyism and servility, while operating as a restraint upon the manly expression of opinion.It fosters a spirit of spurious aristocracy, which shows itself in contempt for men who prefer honest industry to place-hunting and insolvent gentility.…Cited from The Land-War In Ireland (1870), by James Godkin
It is the book of all centuries, countries, and conditions, and affords the best solution of the most mysterious problems concerning God and the world.It cultivates the taste, it elevates the mind, it nurses the soul with the word of life, and it has inspired the best productions of human genius.…Cited from Handbook of Universal Literature,A. C. Lynch Botta
This habit of embracing, sitting on the lover's lap, leaning on his breast, long and uninterrupted periods of secluded companionship, have become so common that it is amazing how a young lady can safely arrive at the wedding day.While this conduct may safely terminate with the wedding day, yet it cultivates the tendency which often results in excessive indulgencies after the honey-moon is over.…Cited from Searchlights on Health, by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
Its study gives wholesome food to the mind, making it strong and systematic.It cultivates and delights the imagination and the taste of men.It refines society by elevating the thoughts and aspirations above what is sensual and sordid, and by checking the grosser passions; it makes up, in part, that "multiplication of agreeable consciousness" which Dr. Johnson calls happiness.…Cited from English Literature, by Henry Coppee
Individual worth, on which some pretend to rely, is relative and unstable, and no one is a judge of it.In a well-organized entirety, it cultivates and improves itself automatically.But that magnificent anarchy cannot, at the inception of the human Charter, take the place of the obviousness of equality.…Cited from Light, by Henri Barbusse [Tr.: Fitzwater Wray]
Kung Fu together with lei tai trains the instincts and timing.It cultivates concentration and relaxation at the same time.…
It is native to the coasts of South Africa where it is found on the foreshore.It cultivates a species of crustose brown algae in a "garden".Scutellastra longicosta has about eleven long, spiked ribs giving it a star-shaped outline.…
The primary theories guiding empowerment evaluation are process use and theories of use and action.Process use represents much of the rationale or logic underlying EE in practice, because it cultivates ownership by placing the approach in community and staff members' hands.The alignment of theories of use and action explain how empowerment evaluation helps people produce desired results.…
