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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to… — Charles Baudelaire
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled… — Wendell Berry
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. — Aesop
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever… — Benjamin Carson
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
We derive our vitality from our store of madness. — Emile M. Cioran
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown… — Mahatma Gandhi
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. — George Bernard Shaw
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… — Richard Dawkins
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides… — Stanford Moore
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest… — G. E. M. Anscombe
My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many… — Gerd R. Puin
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by… — Leonardo da Vinci
Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake… — Charles Spurgeon
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected… — Ibn Arabi
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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