Deriving Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought…
— Carl Mitcham
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Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique…
— William Herbert Hobbs
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As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,…
— James Madison
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We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit:…
— Eusebius
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We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to…
— Clarence Darrow
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The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of…
— Walter E. Williams
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even…
— Carlo M. Cipolla
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Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.
— Alan Feduccia
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Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
— Carl Ludwig
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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one…
— Martin Seligman
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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
— Louis Aragon
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In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in…
— John Walford
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The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not…
— Egon Friedell
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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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