Derives Quotes
115 quotes by 107 authors
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected…
— John Berger
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God…
— James L. Buckley
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We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power…
— Benjamin Carson
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
— Emile M. Cioran
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish…
— Ayn Rand
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from…
— John O'Donohue
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being…
— Tertullian
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to…
— Pope Pius XII
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
— Francis Bacon
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
— Francois Mauriac
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
— James Weldon Johnson
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did…
— Primo Levi
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write…
— Eric Partridge
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in…
— Andre Bazin
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical.…
— Gore Vidal
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th…
— Alfred Marshall
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