Constitute Quotes
277 quotes by 244 authors
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom…
— Hannah Arendt
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion…
— David Bohm
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics…
— Paul Farmer
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are…
— Richard Courant
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All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and…
— Watchman Nee
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
— William James
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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and…
— Jonas Salk
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human…
— Anatole France
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and…
— Joseph Story
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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be…
— Bruce Barton
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that…
— George Wald
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There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
— Walter E. Williams
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than…
— Joel Davis
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The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed…
— David H. Hubel
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In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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