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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the… — Susan Cheever
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window. — Susan Rothenberg
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do .… — Unknown Author
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries… — Barbara G. Walker
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.… — Dennis McKinsey
It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything… — Louise Wilson
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I… — Meg Tilly
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to… — Fred Hoyle
The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment. — Helen Wills
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. — Ralph McGill
You can spin it any way you want. You could spin it on their side that this is a revenge game. We can spin it… — Larry Davis
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. — Jack Lovelock
It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also… — Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that… — Ram Dass
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it? — R C Sproul
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God… — William J. Clinton

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