According Quotes
1971 quotes by 1352 authors
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I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how…
— Robert Newton Peck
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Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own…
— John C. Broger
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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers…
— Christopher Columbus
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Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires…
— Isaac Newton
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
— Irving Babbitt
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When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is…
— Laozi
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but…
— David M. Raup
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We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists…
— Jonathan Falwell
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The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and…
— Andrea Zittel
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According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to…
— Kelly McGonigal
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According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing…
— Igor Sikorsky
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Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to…
— Carlos Barrios
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Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy…
— Julius Wellhausen
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Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.
— Derek Sivers
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The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize…
— Jim Fowler
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC…
— Richard Louv
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From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside…
— Richard Louv
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According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the…
— Roy H. Williams
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