The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
quote by Thomas Huxley
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When a Readiness Is Set to Deliver
Two people may begin to cook,
What looks to be the same thing.
And to those witnessing,
It may be observed to be that way.
Even though a presentation,
Has yet to be made!
But one who is familiar,
And knows what is required...
To get 'that' desired taste.
Will know it is the ingredients used,
To seduce with just the right flavor.
And making mistakes is what it takes.
And there is a difference between...
The ease by which something seen,
Seems to be done.
And the experience by one,
Who knows...
When a readiness is set to deliver.
And no time sooner...
Than that!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Hamlet: Not a whit Horatio; we defy augury; there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be.
line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hold your dog in readiness before you start the hare.
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
quote by G.M. Trevelyan
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
quote by Bashar al-Assad
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
quote by Dietrich Bonhoffer
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
quote by Mohandas Gandhi
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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
quote by Jean Baptiste Rousseau
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I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.
quote by Susan Davis
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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else..an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
quote by Anthony de Mello
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Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
quote by Sigmund Freud
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
quote by Chester W. Nimitz
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
quote by G.K. Chesterton
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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
quote by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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