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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human… — Libba Bray
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. — Werner Heisenberg
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not… — William Whately
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. — Thomas Adams
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was… — Charles Spurgeon
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that… — Charles Darwin
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and… — Isaac Asimov
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them:… — Walt Whitman
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it… — Nikola Tesla
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes. — Winston Churchill
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. — Confucius
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they… — David Hackworth
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. — Henry Fielding
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.… — Vaclav Havel
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will. — Seneca the Younger
When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have… — Rajneesh
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong - or you are absolutely right. — Albert Guinon
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable,… — Patrick Stewart

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