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9547 Few quotes by 5579 unique authors
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There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so…
— Unknown Author
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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire…
— Erwin Chargaff
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
— Alan Ayckbourn
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will…
— Gerald Durrell
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People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.
— Brian Halligan
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Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,…
— Archibald Geikie
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My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard…
— Unknown Author
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Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have…
— Hannes Alfven
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We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong,…
— August Krogh
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The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the…
— Unknown Author
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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
— Samuel Insull
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The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
— Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
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If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
— Unknown Author
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Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly…
— Daniel C. Peterson
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
— Alfred de Musset
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There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is…
— Unknown Author
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The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
— Roger McDonald
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