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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same… — Thomas Adams
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct… — John von Neumann
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to… — Marcello Malpighi
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate… — Eugene Ionesco
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this… — E. M. Forster
The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations… — Ratan Tata
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. — Robert MacNeil
You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it. — Confucius
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts… — Rebecca West
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and… — Ezra Pound
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. — Niccolo Machiavelli
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh

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