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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists… — Georges Braque
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy… — Henri Matisse
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]… — Anton Chekhov
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he… — Douglas MacArthur
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow… — Clifford Stoll
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of… — Seneca the Younger
The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he… — Erik Erikson
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is… — Henri Nouwen
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on… — Ruth Stout
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside… — Jean Cocteau
Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will… — Dan Millman
Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain… — Ernest Holmes
A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery. — Michael Martin Hammer
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed. — Murray Rothbard
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous. — Samuel Adams
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer… — Harry Browne
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… — Werner Heisenberg
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no… — George Herbert
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… — Werner Heisenberg

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