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"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really… — Wallace D. Wattles
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'… — Ayn Rand
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness… — Joseph Sobran
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the… — Ludwig von Mises
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the… — Ellsworth Huntington
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include… — Bertrand Russell
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon… — Karl Pearson
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my… — Claude Bernard
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from… — Max Wertheimer
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that… — Evelyn Waugh
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition… — Mikhail Gorbachev

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