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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh… — Saint Augustine
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond… — Wilma Rudolph
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a… — Joseph Conrad
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the… — Andrew Peterson
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful… — Herbert Hoover
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and… — John C. Calhoun
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is… — Fred Allen
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. — Robert Breault
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the… — Ludwig von Mises
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a… — Mark Twain
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by… — Ayn Rand
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both… — Stephen Covey
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. — Tobias Smollett
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. — Francis Bacon

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