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The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until…
— Ernest Gaines
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I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction…
— Ridley Pearson
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I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One…
— Theodore von Karman
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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for…
— Robert Higgs
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Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling…
— Sarada Devi
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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the…
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
— Bernard Lown
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Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought…
— Robert E. Terwilliger
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Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it.
— Tony Wheeler
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Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.
— William Cartwright
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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as…
— Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
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And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential…
— Josiah Royce
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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various…
— William Davenant
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The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
— Sarah Brady
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I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I…
— Hassan II of Morocco
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A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
— Napoleon Hill
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
— Paul Ricoeur
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than…
— Edward Dowden
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Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
— Theodor Adorno
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A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
— John Steinbeck
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When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig…
— John Paul Stevens
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