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- What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost… — Albert Einstein
- I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with… — Robert Burns
- Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story
- That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp… — Frederick Jackson Turner
- Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill
- Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as… — Anne Lamott
- Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt
- Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. — Carl Jung
- A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer… — George Bernard Shaw
- And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there… — Edgar Allan Poe
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having… — Samuel Johnson