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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural… — John Dewey
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
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
To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to… — Pope Benedict XVI
The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday… — Sri Chinmoy
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it… — Ronald Reagan
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect… — Anne Catherine Emmerich
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an… — Unknown Author
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly. — Robert Kennedy
To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up… — Juan Cole
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable… — Cesar Milstein
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with… — Gregor Mendel
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is… — William Lawrence Bragg
A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which… — Gaston Bachelard
Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration. — Wes Fesler

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