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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
The science of Contrology disproves that prevalent and all-too-trite saying; 'You're only as old as you feel.' The art of Contrology proves… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every… — Luke Jermay Copy Share Image
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As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what it can… — Jay Cutler Copy Share Image
There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Thinking about the women that you know: your friends, sisters, mothers, we know that we are kind of stereotyped. You like sports,… — Laila Ali Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
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Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coal used to be a very dirty fuel but coal has become cleaner and cleaner over the decades. Clean coal now is… — Lawrence Solomon Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The things that they're rejecting I can't change. I can't change my bra size. They're natural. I can work out and I… — Kate Upton Copy Share Image
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks has a long tradition… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
My understanding about nutrition is not what I'd like it to be, so for a long time my dieting strategy was very… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
Frank stared at her. "But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters." Iris looked horrified. "Oh, they're not Ding Dongs." She rummaged under… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
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