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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for…
— Albert Camus
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She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen…
— Connie Brockway
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On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going…
— Unknown Author
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
— John Herschel
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
— Jonathan Swift
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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to…
— George Will
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
— Jack Hanna
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but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was…
— Richelle Mead
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Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that…
— Andy Andrews
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There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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