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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become… — Martin Sheen
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different… — Immanuel Kant
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness… — Tim Field
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you… — Twyla Tharp
Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the… — Julie Gregory
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for… — Thomas Jefferson
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be… — Malcolm Muggeridge
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates… — Stephen Jay Gould
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it… — Fulton J. Sheen
What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never… — Enric Sala
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although… — Gerald Fischbach
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones… — Robert Klein
We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with… — Barbara Lee
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of… — Justin Martyr
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions… — Lilly Ledbetter
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles

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