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I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
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Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
If we look at Germany's infrastructure policy, it has been driven by its mission-oriented focus on green infrastructure. This affects both innovation… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
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The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
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So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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![“[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure…” quote by John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e6d/john-maynard-keynes-1380_adapted_t-he-theory-of-output-as-a-whole-which-i_2448131.jpg)
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