Leaves Quotes

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If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… — Jean Cocteau
When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often… — Byron Katie
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again. — Robert M. Hensel
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity… — Albert Einstein
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… — Claude Bernard
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… — Isaac D'Israeli
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the… — Pablo Casals
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know… — Mitch McConnell
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted… — William Butler Yeats
How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the… — Rajneesh
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm. — Sylvia Fraser
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from… — Cheng Man-ch'ing
No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that… — John A. Hannah
Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the… — Pharrell Williams

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