Case Quotes
3360 quotes by 2494 authors
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I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to…
— Marc Maron
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
— Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making…
— Douglas Houghton Campbell
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As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful…
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,…
— William Buckland
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Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men…
— Ambrose
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Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.
— Rudolf Leuckart
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...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of…
— Paul Halmos
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Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic…
— Chauncey Guy Suits
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It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it.…
— Louise Wilson
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In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some…
— Immanuel Kant
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if…
— Thomas Reid
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In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness…
— Ron Clarke
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I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile…
— Jenn Shelton
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On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is…
— Thomas Merton
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But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the…
— Martin Buber
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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to…
— Saint Augustine
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