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For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of… — G. H. Hardy
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and… — Henry David Thoreau
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution… — Abraham Lincoln
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about… — Abraham Lincoln
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else… — Rajneesh
The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behaviour with that… — Tim Field
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does… — Rajneesh
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… — Sigmund Freud
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that… — Alison Jolly
The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren. — Mell Lazarus
The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else. — Thomas Kinkade
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but… — Gerald Scarfe
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,… — Unknown Author
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the… — Philip Caputo
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations… — Tom Seaver
One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field… — Sheila Cornell-Douty
You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence. — Matthew Kahn
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Unknown Author
Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

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