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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. — Anton Chekhov
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it… — Sarah Bernhardt
Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul… — Jerry Bridges
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier. — Sigmund Freud
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer… — Pope Francis
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating… — Aristotle
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. — Dionne Warwick
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an… — Arianna Huffington
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself… — Ian Botham
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating… — T.D. Jakes
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a… — Henri Matisse
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. — John Shelby Spong
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any… — Martha C. Nussbaum
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization… — Erwin Schrodinger
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on… — Rajneesh
To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy. — Nhat Hanh
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,… — Gerhard Richter
Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it. — John C. Maxwell

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