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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity… — Charles Horton Cooley
A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate… — Theodore L. Cuyler
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. — Robert A. Heinlein
If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything… — Scott Lively
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of… — Robert Benchley
My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself — John Wooden
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable. — Unknown Author
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It… — James Joseph Sylvester
What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary… — August Macke
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Unknown Author
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted… — Michel de Montaigne
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the… — Stanislav Grof
Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than… — Unknown Author
Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know… — Thomas Carlyle
Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this… — John Green
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know… — Florence Nightingale
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life… — H. L. Mencken

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