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  • The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

    David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage
  • If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

    Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications
  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

    Pride   Names   Quality  
    Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  • The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

    Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643
  • Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.44, Xist Publishing
  • Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

    Science   Animal   Past  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.127, Bantam
  • One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

    Men   Suits   Degrees  
  • The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

    Wall   Emotional   Garden  
    'The Garden' (1916)
  • We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  • Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

    Sides   Fence   Breeding  
  • Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

  • For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

    Hilary Mantel (2012). “Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition”, p.47, HarperCollins UK
  • The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

    Prayer   Pride   Feelings  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin
  • Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

    Money   Might   Six  
    Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360
  • It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

    Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.233, Basic Books
  • Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

    Mean   Parent   Usury  
    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.32, Aristotle
  • Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

    John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation
  • One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

    Animal   Pet   Ends  
    "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.
  • If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

    Ivy   League   Valleys  
  • I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

    Self   Denial   Littles  
    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press
  • The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

    Love   Life   Family  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1142, e-artnow
  • The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

    Horse   Winning   Race  
  • No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

  • I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

    Dog   Self   Sea  
  • Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  • How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  • Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

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