Made Upon Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more…
— Albert Einstein
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While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.
— Elias Lyman Magoon
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If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
— Joan Didion
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What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
— Charles Dickens
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Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in…
— George William Curtis
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
— Nelson Algren
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Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor.…
— Raphael Lemkin
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You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who…
— Sarah McLachlan
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The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art…
— George Inness
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You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made…
— Jim Berg
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If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
— Alfred Korzybski
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made…
— Thornton Wilder
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I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside…
— George MacDonald
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Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
— Erin Morgenstern
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions…
— David Novak
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Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
— Jules Verne
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But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against…
— Robert Walpole
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People started falling from the sky by the close of the decade. They were never clothed, always naked, always a petrifying grin on their face.…
— Lynn
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry…
— Alfred Korzybski
Who Wrote These Made Upon Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Made Upon Quotes as follows: