Direction Quotes
2551 quotes by 1934 authors
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The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on…
— Michael Crichton
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We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways…
— Thomas Friedman
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But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye…
— Thomas Young
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for…
— Lord Kelvin
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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no…
— Eric Hoffer
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People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful…
— Surya Das
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We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything…
— Jose Mujica
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But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an…
— Milton Friedman
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I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't…
— Chip Wilson
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Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the…
— Robert Heilbroner
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The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend…
— Adolf Hitler
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Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to…
— Richard L. Evans
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Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction: My son Aditya made Mohabbatein (2000), which took a lot of time and energy. Then we started…
— Yash Chopra
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As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility…
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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