Modification
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn outright, we can modify it as we go along
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Modification, Something, Something for nothing, Things, Thinking
The Charter was regarded as important because it assigned definite and practical remedies to temporary evils. There was very little that was abstract in its terms, less even than later generations supposed…. A King had been brought to order, not by a posse of reactionary feudalists, but the community of the land under baronial leadership; a tyrant had been subjected to the laws which hitherto it had been his private privilege to administer and to modify at will. A process had begun which was to end in putting the power of the Crown into the hands of the community at large.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Communication, Community, Evil, Famous, Law, Modification, Power
Behind every successful man is a woman; behind her is his wife.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Famous, Humorous, Modification, Statement
By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained, and also the ideas of such modifications.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Emotion, Famous, Meaningful, Modification, Power