Famous quotes containing the words fixed, point and/or type:
“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversybut he who has shown the better temper.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.”
—Isadora Duncan (18781927)
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