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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to… — Alexander Fleming
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one ..… — Ritchie Blackmore
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas… — Paul Gauguin
There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this… — Dennis Miller
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano
The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps… — Dorothea Johnson
Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes — Gaylord Perry
Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness. — William S. Burroughs
The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy… — Marsilio Ficino
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a… — George Horace Lorimer
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to… — A A Milne
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is… — Bill W.
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something… — Martin Luther
Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the… — Frederic Chopin
A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress… — Marshall McLuhan
Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds… — Pat Buchanan
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated… — Charles Spurgeon
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors. — Augustus Toplady
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I… — Robert Musil

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