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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of… — Ugo Betti
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of… — Thorstein Veblen
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very… — Charles Caleb Colton
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces. — W. Somerset Maugham
We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces. — Cesar Chavez
Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it… — Charles Caleb Colton
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom… — Jean Giraudoux
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a… — Joseph Conrad
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of… — Will Cuppy
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… — Aldous Huxley
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know? — Penny Marshall
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect,… — Alexander Smith
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories;… — Louis Kronenberger
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion. — Anatole France
Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory. — Livy
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our… — Thomas Browne

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