Derived Quotes
319 quotes by 279 authors
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you…
— Saint Basil
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I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
— Russell Brand
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived;…
— David Brainerd
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
— Edmund Burke
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded…
— Tom Allen
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence…
— Bruce Alberts
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America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that…
— Paulo Freire
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
— Henry Fielding
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the…
— Lewis Carroll
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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God
— George W. Bush
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The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary…
— Sigmund Freud
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me…
— James Nasmyth
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from…
— Hans Reichenbach
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
— Albert Einstein
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