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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure… — Jerome K. Jerome
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in… — H. L. Mencken
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a… — Meg Whitman
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can… — David Horowitz
I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer. — Barbara Woodhouse
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major… — H. Bentley Glass
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about. — Christopher Locke
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in… — Unknown Author
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom. — John Viney
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment." — William Thomas Councilman
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be… — William Buckland
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Unknown Author
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving… — Charles V. Chapin
And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as… — William Harvey
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Unknown Author

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