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Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
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There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
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I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
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The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
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