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843 quotes by 673 authors
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Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having…
— Rajneesh
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There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added…
— Nicolas Steno
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A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which…
— Margaret Becker
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry…
— Groucho Marx
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it…
— Grove Karl Gilbert
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In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
— William James
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If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for…
— Elbert Hubbard
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I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here?…
— Joy Hester
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Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several…
— James Hansen
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Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler…
— William L. Shirer
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground…
— Terry Pratchett
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I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed
— Emanuel Lasker
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When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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