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Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if… — Eugene V. Debs
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole… — Martin Nowak
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You… — Henry Bromell
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. — Donald Justice
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but… — Earl Warren
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it. — Peter Schoomaker
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent… — William Wardell
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...… — Lawrence Fertig
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety… — Elisha Gray
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides… — David Quammen
Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne. — Richard Taverner
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
[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
The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various… — Kersey Graves
Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again — Tage Danielsson
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American… — Richey Edwards

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