If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly — as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak — I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.
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Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984)Robertson Davies
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.James Russell Lowell
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity
Are constructed with considerable care.A. P. Herbert
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...
David Ricardo
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
William Stanley Jevons
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
David (geographer) Harvey
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