Fixed Quotes

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[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study… — Thomas Edward Thorpe
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by… — Henri Desgrange
Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is… — Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous… — Robert Boyle
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile… — Robert Boyle
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over… — Arthur M. Wellington
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey… — Dusty Baker
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without… — Benjamin Smith
I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the… — Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do… — Saint Colette
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which… — Erwin Rommel
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed! — Delmore Schwartz
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
All the time. A few months ago I came really close to losing it, I was getting really paranoid. And then I started a new… — Robert Pattinson
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the… — Ralph Gibson
I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot… — Josef Hoflehner

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