Left Quotes
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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive…
— Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
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But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a…
— Judy Woodruff
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Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his…
— Sun Tzu
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and…
— Charles Edward Montague
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If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been…
— M. Scott Peck
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the…
— Robert de Castella
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After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.
— Carl Lewis
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Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday…
— Marty Stern
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Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke…
— Booth Tarkington
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my…
— Malala Yousafzai
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As long as you cling to your self, you will wander right and left, day and night, for thousands of years; and when, after all…
— Sanai
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On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner…
— Milos Raonic
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The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch,…
— Jimmy Pardo
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Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of…
— David George Hogarth
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Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
— Thomas A. Edison
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