Almost Quotes

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Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. — Adelle Davis
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will… — Gregory Bateson
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers… — Rajneesh
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas… — Rajneesh
Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed… — Rajneesh
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen… — Abraham Lincoln
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without… — Gunnar Myrdal
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are… — Alister Hardy
The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful. — Frederick Locker-Lampson
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years,… — Anne Sebba
There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite… — Soren Kierkegaard
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. — Carol Channing
At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel… — Ernest Thompson Seton
But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball. — Oscar Robertson
You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either… — Oscar Robertson
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches. — Oscar Robertson
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the… — Justus von Liebig

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