Derive Quotes
257 quotes by 229 authors
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Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a…
— Paul Tsongas
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The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom…
— Frederick Osborn
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Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things…
— Dion Fortune
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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found…
— Saint Augustine
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It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which…
— George Mason
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This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made…
— Ernie Fletcher
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Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than…
— Thomas A. Edison
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You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from…
— Bertrand Russell
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Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as…
— Emanuel Lasker
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
— Barry Boehm
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As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes…
— Dave Hickey
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All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought
— Sydney Banks
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To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.
— Bruce Lee
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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from…
— Maimonides
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Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
— Cheikh Anta Diop
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People derive the most satisfaction from doing the best they can.
— Isadore Sharp
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Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from…
— Leonard Bernstein
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