I can, however, get vicarious joy in seeing that so many of my husband's best qualities will live on in these boys, as they do in our own two sons — productive professionals, independent thinkers, wonderful parents and husbands.
Giles of Rome (who died in 1316 as archbishop of Bourges) was one of the most productive and influential thinkers active at the end of the 13th century, who played a major role also in the political events of his time.
Aspiring to act as Twilight would is a big step to becoming a productive and rational thinker.
Although several Jewish intellectuals in 9th- and 10th-century Babylonia were steeped in Greek philosophy, the most productive and influential Jewish thinkers of this period represented a very different tendency, that of the Muʿtazilite kalām.
There is no better return we could offer the society that honors us with its investment and trust than to send into the world, year after year, graduates who will be active, informed and thoughtful citizens, productive workers and innovative thinkers, and persons of humane instincts, committed to the common good.
Tom was a brilliant thinker, a productive researcher, a great mentor, and a true friend.
With its thick, lavishly illustrated catalog, it presents an enormously productive artist, writer and thinker whose work effortlessly spans the gap between Modern and Postmodern, Minimal and Post-Minimal.
But she admits that working in her own family home, with occasional productive journeys to "a little thinker" she hired in Majorca, makes her writing very different.
The Ritalin will do nothing to make him a more successful human being, a better thinker, or a more productive member of society.
