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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in… — Wallace D. Wattles
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding… — T. Harv Eker
The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use. — Gustave Eiffel
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless… — Charles Lapworth
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches… — Francis Bacon
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money… — William Cobbett
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my… — Henry Ford
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… — Francis Bacon
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this… — George Wald
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction.… — Arthur Eddington
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which… — Baruch Spinoza
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure... — Paul Simon

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