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But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou… — John F. Kennedy
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and… — Nadia Comaneci
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously. — Bill Gates
There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not… — Roger Bacon
One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes. — Richard Branson
There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change. — John F. Kennedy
I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty. — Kristen Stewart
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil.… — George Balanchine
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and… — Marcel Proust
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They… — Henry Ford
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition,… — Abraham Kuyper
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out. — Norman Mailer
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple… — Ambrose Bierce
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and… — Vladimir Lenin
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. — Ernest Renan
I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief… — Milton Friedman
If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is… — Edward Francis Hutton
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage,… — George Sand

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