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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified… — James Bryant Conant
Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said… — John Bunyan
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there… — Izaak Walton
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and… — Bruce Nauman
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white… — Alfred Stieglitz
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their… — Simon Schama
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of… — Mary McLeod Bethune
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust. — Andrei Platonov
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… — Abraham Lincoln
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him… — George Harrison

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