Famous quotes containing the words trial and/or mode:
“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accidentthe luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)
“Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, seeeverything, everything through the eye, in one mode of objective curiosity.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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