Fixed Quotes

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My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. — Joshua Lederberg
While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a… — Frederick Lenz
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried… — Claude M. Bristol
When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them… — Vance Havner
For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between… — Maximus the Confessor
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and… — Paul Davies
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being… — Fulton J. Sheen
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only… — Michael Nesmith
All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly… — Carl Linnaeus
Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of… — Robert Zubrin
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the… — Terry Eagleton
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to… — John Engler
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear… — Wilhelm Dilthey
One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed. — Virginia Foxx
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin. — Chaka Khan
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. — Benjamin Disraeli
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we… — Henry Edward Armstrong
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is… — Herbert Marcuse
The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent… — Joseph Butler

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