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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week… — Basil Hume
You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference. — Jimmy Webb
It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide… — Michael Sweeney
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts… — Saint Augustine
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad,… — Mortimer Adler
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if… — James A. Michener
What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural'… — Conrad Hyers
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. — Arthur Schopenhauer
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having… — Aldous Huxley
There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he… — Walt Whitman
"You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior… — Price Pritchett
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not… — Orison Swett Marden
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his… — Oliver Goldsmith
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security… — Albert Einstein
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. — Albert Einstein
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general,… — Donald Knuth
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert

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