Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”
—John Dewey (18591952)
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