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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… — Lewis Thomas
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the… — Steven Weinberg
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be… — Carolyn Wells
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the… — Maxwell Maltz
There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts. — Janet Reno
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. — Edgar Allan Poe
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. — Richard Whately
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. — Richard G. Scott
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Simone Weil
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which… — Elizabeth Blackwell
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. — George Arthur Buttrick
Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology. — Jon Kyl
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with… — Bell Hooks
Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people… — T. Harv Eker
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her… — Seneca the Younger
If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig… — Dan Millman
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can… — John Owen

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