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First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be… — William James
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of… — David Attenborough
I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk… — Ani DiFranco
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were… — Clarence Darrow
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on… — Rajneesh
On the birth of his son after having had two daughters: I finally got it right. — Jack Nicholson
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to… — Thomas Jefferson
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at… — Clive James
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,… — Rajneesh
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And,… — Bruce Lee
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from… — Andrew Jackson
First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career - where you… — Robert Bella
I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my… — Ernest Van den Haag

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