Lived Quotes
4465 quotes by 2988 authors
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Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review…
— Dan Millman
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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by…
— Robert Hooke
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced…
— Charles Darwin
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably…
— James Boswell
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You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not…
— Francis Pharcellus Church
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
— Horace
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By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single moment you begin…
— Rajneesh
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at…
— Billy Graham
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No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to…
— Charles Colson
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A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may…
— Denis Waitley
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If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take…
— Howard W. Hunter
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