Intermediate Quotes
56 quotes by 48 authors
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate…
— Annie Besant
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will…
— Florence Nightingale
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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.
— Eric Hoffer
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It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
— Stanley Milgram
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My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude…
— Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over…
— Arthur M. Wellington
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Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had…
— Richard Dawkins
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this…
— David Berlinski
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread…
— John Ruskin
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of…
— Jacques Ellul
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Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be…
— Norman Cousins
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which…
— Aristotle
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of…
— Samuel Johnson
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It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth…
— Rene Descartes
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We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields…
— Kathy Acker
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
— Thomas Young
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The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. .…
— Ibn Ata Allah
Who Wrote These Intermediate Quotes
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