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4656 Among quotes by 2816 unique authors
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Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound…
— Thomas George Bonney
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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].…
— Unknown Author
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its…
— Unknown Author
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
— Richard Owen
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There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire…
— Paul Bartsch
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
— Daniel Dennett
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Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open…
— Unknown Author
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Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over…
— Unknown Author
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A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible…
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.…
— King Hussein I
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I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the…
— Lucy Hale
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In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of…
— Robert Adams
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Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
— Robert Breault
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Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This…
— Grete Waitz
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It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer…
— John Climacus
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences…
— Aristotle
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the…
— R. D. Laing
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What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who…
— Paul Ehrenfest
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Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things…
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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