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What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is… — Joseph Campbell
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we… — Vincent de Paul
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,… — Galileo Galilei
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States… — Alexander Agassiz
In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a… — Douglas Wilson
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people. — Frederick Lenz
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ... — Norman Foster
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this,… — Max Weber
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the… — Robert Benchley
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the… — Jacques Derrida
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. — Pierre de Fermat
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. — Roald Dahl
We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of… — Pope Benedict XIV
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts. — Alexander von Humboldt
Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we… — Jean de la Bruyere
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our… — Christopher Hampton
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. — Harold MacMillan
There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country. — Tim Robbins
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. — Alexis de Tocqueville
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. — H.G. Wells
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay… — Daniel Handler
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of… — Karl Popper

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