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Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through… — Dean Lombardi
Certain pitches you throw, they lay off them like they knew it was coming. — Mark Buehrle
The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some… — W. W. Rouse Ball
If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men,… — Archibald Rutledge
When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life. — Scott Ian
It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night. — Daniel Johns
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be… — Natan Sharansky
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken — Philip Wylie
Isnâ€™t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal youâ€™ve hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in… — Gene Hill
When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence… — Greg L. Bahnsen
It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of… — J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all. — C.J. Sansom
I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and… — Darcey Steinke
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesâ€”a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosityâ€”but they also share one other defining… — Steven Johnson
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense… — Steven Johnson
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body… — Mary MacLane
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is… — Judith Lewis Herman
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do. — Dillon Burroughs
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a… — Harold Rosenberg

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