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Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional… — Timothy Leary
Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we… — Harold S. Kushner
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle — Krs One
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one. — Elton Welsby
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the… — Peter Quennell
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you… — Judith Krantz
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they… — Hans Cloos
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be… — Archibald Geikie
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Unknown Author
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Unknown Author
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods… — Hans Bethe
No battle is worth fighting except the last one. — Enoch Powell
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Unknown Author
Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting… — Azzedine Alaia

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