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849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and…
— Isaac Newton
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Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences…
— James Madison
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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a…
— John P. Kotter
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In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still…
— Alan Watts
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential…
— Richard Henry Lee
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania,…
— George Mason
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You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as…
— James Madison
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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there…
— Theodor Schwann
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The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that…
— Theodor Schwann
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We…
— Richard Baxter
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Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in…
— Albert Camus
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Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
— Marion LeRoy Burton
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Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is…
— Sophia Lyon Fahs
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The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
— Thomas Beecham
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The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected…
— Unknown Author
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In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane…
— Unknown Author
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A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible…
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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