Kind Quotes
18494 Kind quotes by 8767 unique authors
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To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told…
— Thomas Browne
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Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."
— Dmitry Medvedev
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
— Charles Darwin
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The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for…
— Lord Kelvin
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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until…
— William Banting
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I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't…
— Method Man
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I'm a big PAX person... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS.…
— Donald Glover
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That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come…
— Milton Friedman
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Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the…
— Wilford Woodruff
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When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
— Ivan Illich
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
— Anne Lamott
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
— Pema Chodron
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We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal…
— Martha H. Tingey
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We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely…
— Karl Popper
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth…
— Mary McCarthy
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Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into…
— Pema Chodron
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These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion…
— Pope Pius IX
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Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops…
— David Whyte
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