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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I… — Abdoulaye Wade
Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where… — Thaddeus Golas
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes… — G I Gurdjieff
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit. — Neale Donald Walsch
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. — Ugo Betti
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of… — John Ruskin
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in… — William Graham Sumner
You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in… — Roger Bannister
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off… — Desiderius Erasmus
Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human… — Stephen Schwartz
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts… — Hermann Hesse
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,… — Henry Adams
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above… — Alfred Noyes
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way. — Dalai Lama
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize… — E. O. Wilson
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some… — Francis Collins
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining… — Samuel Johnson
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness,… — Francis Crick

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