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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
— Simone Weil
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About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by…
— George Wald
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Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the…
— Hyman Rickover
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task…
— William Graham Sumner
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
— Carl Linnaeus
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To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
— John Dewey
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Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men…
— Max Wertheimer
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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that…
— Alexander Whyte
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business,…
— Vernon Howard
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Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be…
— John Owen
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There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in…
— John Owen
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To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive,…
— John Owen
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption…
— John Owen
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Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God…
— J I Packer
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly…
— John Owen
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Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he…
— Walter Bradford Cannon
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We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,…
— Carl Linnaeus
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the…
— Galileo Galilei
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I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I…
— Albert Claude
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
— John Perry Barlow
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