| George Alexander Gibson - 1912 - 842 oldal
...barren. No, I am fully convinced that mankind has just and true instincts in this matter, though the race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong. I acknowledge, however, that I am sometimes moved to anger, not on my own account, but on that of many... | |
| Tennessee Academy of Science - 1914 - 214 oldal
...with weapons of defence or of offence, some great and some small, and in this grim competition the race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong. FERNS FOUND IN THE VICINITY OF SEWANEE DY JOHN T. MCGILL, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY. [Read before the Academy,... | |
| Champ Clark - 1920 - 504 oldal
...however, who achieve reputations, build them up by patient, careful, unremitting toil. In this matter the race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong — or the palm of victory to the wise. There is a class of men in Congress — and they constitute... | |
| Edwin Pugh - 1923 - 326 oldal
...had he met me a month sooner. As it was I had learnt from my first bitter experience that though the race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong a combination of swiftness and strength opposed to swiftness or strength alone, does almost certainly... | |
| 1869 - 664 oldal
...are prudent, energetic, and industrious, fail to attain some fair degree of worldly success ; but the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the 66 strong. Circumstances affect efforts, promoting, arresting or diverting them. The road to success... | |
| Kentucky State Bar Association - 1909 - 256 oldal
...past annual meetings and from performing a proper share of the work of the Association. But, as the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, so the honors of life are not always conferred upon the most deserving. In accordance with the custom... | |
| Norman R. Augustine - 1997 - 396 oldal
...takeovers in mind when he gave his famous advice on gambling, but his words certainly seem to apply: "The race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong," he said, "but that is the way to bet." So Old for Its Age "The first Indian hospital was built in the... | |
| Jack Hirshleifer - 2001 - 370 oldal
...acceptant of human selfishness as a fact of life. There's an updated proverb from Ecclesiastes: The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet. Similarly, unselfishness certainly exists, but don't bet on it. With regard... | |
| John C. Van Tramp - 1870 - 794 oldal
...the hopes of anticipated victory, rushed upon their antagonists in great disorder. The result pr$ Fed that the " race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong.'* Both parties engaged hand to hand, but a few minutes decided the battle in favor of the whites. Thirty-six... | |
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