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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. — Will Durant
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.… — Henry David Thoreau
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty… — John Stuart Mill
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is… — Thomas Sowell
To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it. — Shimon Peres
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.… — Luis Federico Leloir
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. — Mark McCormack
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume… — Cynthia Heimel
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that… — Thomas Berry
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess… — Tertullian
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses… — Ella Baker
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains. — Mike Caro
Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals,… — Ed Diener
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger… — Jeff Cohen
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to… — William A. Niskanen
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. — Unknown Author
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson

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