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Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it… — Leonardo da Vinci
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest,… — Farkas Bolyai
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the… — Albert Einstein
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… — Thomas B. Macaulay
While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild… — Anna Kavan
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange… — Michael Ondaatje
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world.… — Roy Haynes
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did… — Terry Tempest Williams
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is… — Swami Vivekananda
In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a… — Douglas Wilson
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of… — John Fowles
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of… — Henry Mintzberg
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a… — Oliver Burkeman
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a… — Aristotle
One of my constant reminders is, 'End practice on a happy note.' I want the boys to want to come out to practice; and I… — John Wooden
A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to… — Marvin J. Ashton
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore… — J. W. N. Sullivan
Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something. — Dmitry Medvedev
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that… — Ambrose Bierce
Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set… — Richard Louv
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who,… — Jacques Lusseyran
One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized,… — Joseph Campbell
I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to… — Tracy McMillan
I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion… — Tom Waits
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were. — Leif Garrett

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