Beyond Quotes
5476 Beyond quotes by 3232 unique authors
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Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him
— Johann Georg Hamann
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What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown…
— Jeremy Bentham
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had…
— Sebastian Faulks
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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure,
— Margaret Thatcher
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The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
— Louis de Broglie
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Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in…
— John Dalton
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Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world…
— John Ashcroft
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Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn…
— Anne Bishop
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In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
— Catharine MacKinnon
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition…
— Vernor Vinge
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Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider…
— Vernor Vinge
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There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest…
— Diane Ravitch
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Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on…
— David Brooks
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The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that…
— Harry Martinson
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It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.
— Sam Cooke
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I don't know what's up there / Beyond the sky
— Sam Cooke
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient…
— Jack Vance
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Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and…
— Francois Fenelon
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Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which…
— Gabriel Marcel
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called…
— James A. Michener
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My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent…
— Edward Kennedy
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We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
— Christine Gregoire
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