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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which… — Albert Pike
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather… — Steven Pinker
You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body… — Steven Pinker
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. — Harold Pinter
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. — Plautus
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release… — Plautus
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when… — John Podhoretz
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none… — Francis Quarles
In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. — Sidney Poitier
The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten… — Sidney Poitier
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a… — Jane Porter
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things… — Katherine Anne Porter
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in… — Natalie Portman
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. — Ezra Pound
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are… — Terry Pratchett
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. — J. B. Priestley
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's… — Dan Quayle
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks… — Queen Rania of Jordan
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness. — Daniel Radcliffe
Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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