Mainly Quotes
555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors
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The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If…
— E F Schumacher
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Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a…
— Linda Ronstadt
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It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that…
— Harvey Pekar
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Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.
— Christina Perri
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Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear…
— Arthur Koestler
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In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
— James Rainwater
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Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to…
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly…
— Peter L. Berger
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the…
— Anthony Trollope
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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that.…
— Margaret Mahy
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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
— H. L. Mencken
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The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is…
— Ivan Pavlov
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The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
— Eliza Doolittle
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I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple weeks, mainly as…
— Jessie Ware
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I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded…
— James Lovelock
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Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. Â There is no field that you can study…
— Jacque Fresco
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
— Nick Faldo
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
— Damian Marley
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a…
— Lynn Margulis
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