Adapted Quotes
162 quotes by 152 authors
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to…
— Samuel Butler
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another,…
— Roderick Murchison
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The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead…
— Elias Canetti
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
— John B. S. Haldane
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,…
— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole…
— James Hutton
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The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an…
— August Kekule
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There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of…
— Carl Jung
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All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find…
— John D. Barrow
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The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes…
— Benjamin Graham
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It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but…
— Pope Pius X
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The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was…
— Fernand Braudel
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