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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow…
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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall…
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily…
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's…
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so…
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual…
— William Ames
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still…
— Eric Hoffer
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
— Milton Friedman
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised…
— John William Draper
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We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of…
— John F. Kennedy
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Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching…
— Maria von Trapp
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The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
— Daniel Goleman
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