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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and… — Victor Hugo
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his… — Alister MacKenzie
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell… — Barbara Oakley
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift… — David E. Sorensen
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic… — Justus von Liebig
With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.… — Fritz Zwicky
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it… — Rebecca Harding Davis
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation so… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our… — Oskar Kokoschka
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means… — Unknown Author
O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with You, may my heart… — Pope John XXIII
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:… — Albert Einstein
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I… — Ulysses S. Grant
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all… — George Plimpton
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share… — Unknown Author
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation… — Robert M. Pirsig
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco

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