Frequently Quotes
821 quotes by 643 authors
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I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as…
— James M. Barrie
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Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We…
— Anthony de Mello
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The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis…
— Lewis Mumford
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases…
— Francis Galton
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be…
— Max Wertheimer
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a…
— Ronald Fisher
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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the…
— Martin Luther
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The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one…
— Tim Field
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Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the…
— St. Jerome
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Saying a person's name frequently and with ease will cause them to fall in love with you. This is one of the top techniques to…
— James J. Davis
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he…
— Immanuel Kant
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once…
— Otto Hermann Kahn
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Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than…
— Marjory Stephenson
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Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if…
— William Shockley
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