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But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions… — Alexis Carrel
The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in… — Hermann von Helmholtz
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except… — F. A. Harper
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front… — Olympia Dukakis
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the… — Audre Lorde
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one… — Roald Dahl
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in… — Pope Gregory XVI
Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge… — Khalil Gibran
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it… — Herman Melville
The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its… — Nick Nolte
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a… — George Lucas
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the… — Olaf Stapledon
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal… — Jefferson Davis
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it.… — Thomas Troward

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