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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of…
— Saint Augustine
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter…
— Daniel Boone
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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner…
— Unknown Author
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
— Amy Lowell
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux…
— Aeschylus
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of…
— Martin Luther
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
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