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7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man… — Percy Williams Bridgman
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts… — C. D. Broad
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate. — David Hume
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as… — William Hazlitt
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. — Sydney J. Harris
...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is… — Marsden Wagner
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about… — Jason Lee
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the… — David Soul
I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to… — Gloria Allred
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart… — Dean Koontz
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't… — John C. Maxwell
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… — David Foster Wallace
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. — Edward Sapir
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long… — Josh Duhamel
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely… — Lewis H. Lapham
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the… — Martin Luther
Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the… — Barack Obama
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. — Jean Rostand
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with… — Arthur Miller
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally… — Elwyn Brooks White
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities. — Robert H. Jackson
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu

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