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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… — Unknown Author
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...… — Unknown Author
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. — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
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
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' — Esther Peterson
When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to… — William Hudson O'Hanlon
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way… — Lancelot Hogben
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white… — Kofi Annan
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's… — Candace Parker
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life? — Rick Warren
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when… — Desmond Tutu
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use… — Thomas Dreier

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