Famous quotes containing the words aggregate, excess and/or demand:
“We cannot think of a legitimate argument why ... whites and blacks need be affected by the knowledge that an aggregate difference in measured intelligence is genetic instead of environmental.... Given a chance, each clan ... will encounter the world with confidence in its own worth and, most importantly, will be unconcerned about comparing its accomplishments line-by-line with those of any other clan. This is wise ethnocentricism.”
—Richard Herrnstein (19301994)
“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)