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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. — Edgar Degas
I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good — Michael Hutchence
Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a… — Michael Hutchence
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view,… — Richard Wurmbrand
I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a… — Unknown Author
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from… — Johannes Stark
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted… — Herbert Croly
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the… — Herbert Croly
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause… — Noah Levine
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how… — Christian Lous Lange
Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world,… — Heinrich Himmler
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those… — Benito Mussolini
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was… — Rudolf Hess
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that… — Wilkie Collins
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear
Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a… — Graeme Le Saux
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. — Wim Wenders
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think… — John Brown

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