A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but… — Manfred Eigen Copy Share Image
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I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount. — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you… — Neem Karoli Baba Copy Share Image
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does. — J. Willard Marriott Copy Share Image
If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor, — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or… — Stephen I of Hungary Copy Share Image
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
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