Almost Entirely Quotes
72 quotes by 70 authors
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than…
— Derek Bok
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What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them,…
— Julie Burchill
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in…
— David Cameron
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere…
— Lewis Thomas
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On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.…
— Morris Kline
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The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or…
— Wendell Berry
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
— George Orwell
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
— Marlene Dietrich
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The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you…
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
— Alice Waters
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative…
— John Hume
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The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
— Clive James
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The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real…
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom,…
— John Calvin
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
— John Philip Sousa
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If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost…
— Bob Feller
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Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those…
— Gregor Mendel
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Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is…
— Oswald J. Smith
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