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Quotes About Predominance

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despite suggestions to the contrary (including by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo), there was no Trump doctrine; Trump's version of "America first" prompted one analyst to define the administration's strategy as "primacy without a purpose." 2 As with other aspects of his foreign policy, Trump used a bully pulpit to declare America's predominance in a region from which he otherwise wanted to withdraw.
~ Julian E. Zelizer
What is Empire but the predominance of race?' the English liberal imperialist and prime minister Lord Rosebery observed.
~ Kenan Malik
Acolo unde predomin? materialismul raÅ£ionalist statele se transform? mai puÅ£in în niÅŸte închisori, cât în niÅŸte ospicii.
~ C.G. Jung
La objetivación de la mujer es tan predominante que no la percibimos y en la juventud nos esclaviza. El feminismo no nos ha salvado de esa esclavitud. Solo nos libramos con la edad, cuando nos convertimos en seres invisibles y ya no somos objeto de deseo, o cuando alguna tragedia nos sacude hasta los huesos y nos confronta con lo fundamental de la existencia.
~ Isabel Allende
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
From this a general rule is drawn, which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined because that predominance has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Mexica warriors were predicated on birth and status. In a cyclical pattern of cause and effect, such greater innate advantages gave aristocrats predominance on the battlefield in taking captives, which in turn provided proof of their martial excellence—and
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates
~ Charlotte Temple
the weak shall not fight only the strong are the chosen ones.
~ Hammurabi
My deep belief in one word? Dominance.
~ Daniel Farke
The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism
~ Henri Barbusse
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
~ Mason Cooley
womanly insistence upon authority and beating once he was thoroughly drunk? I would wager that he is very nearly impotent: that would account for the woman's restless garrulity, her desire for predominance, absurdly combined with those girlish ways, and her thinning hair – she will be bald in a year or so.' 'It might be just as well if everybody were impotent,' said Jack sombrely. 'It would save a world of trouble.
~ Patrick O'Brian
shadowy literary history of Othón and you see that his poems were translated into English by Samuel Beckett. It was not his wasteland weariness that appealed to Beckett—though the wasteland predominates—but rather Beckett's need for money.
~ Paul Theroux
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
~ Mason Cooley
Federico Pinedo: "Representamos la tendencia más en concordancia con la civilización cosmopolita y, más que todo, con la civilización europea. Somos el factor más indicado para impedir el predominio de los elementos indígenas que hoy vuelven a pesar en la política argentina desenterrados por la práctica inconsciente del sufragio universal".
~ Pacho O'Donnell