The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
