Detect Quotes
168 quotes by 148 authors
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is…
— John Henry Newman
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The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.
— Megan Hart
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased…
— Frederick Douglass
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I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’…
— John Irving
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The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . .…
— Carlton Mellick III
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a…
— Haruki Murakami
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no…
— Robin Jones Gunn
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Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?" "Only for…
— Gail Carriger
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That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect. Do I do this to you?, he…
— Jojo Moyes
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Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery…
— Angela Carter
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If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
— Lisa Alther
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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential…
— Nathan Wolfe
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The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.
— Stephen Hawking
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Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every…
— Sarah Parcak
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