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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the… — Walter E. Williams
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement… — Leonard Read
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass… — Archibald Garrod
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
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single… — Unknown Author
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from… — Robert P. Crease
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it… — Unknown Author
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. — Percy Williams Bridgman
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by… — William Buckland
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,… — William Buckland
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime… — Alexander Fleming
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good… — Helenio Herrera
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together… — J. C. R. Licklider
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by… — Unknown Author
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker… — Henry Miller
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between… — Howard W. Hunter
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one… — Albert Schweitzer
Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the… — Thomas Berry
The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their… — Ezra Taft Benson
For an individual we distinguish integrity as a matter of that person's word being whole and complete, and for a group or organizational entity as… — Werner Erhard
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up. — Booker T. Washington
What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation… — Grete Waitz

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