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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance…
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We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so…
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
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In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the…
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As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a…
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The…
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
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In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent…
— Khalil Gibran
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To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
— Burl Ives
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it…
— Saint Augustine
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Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal…
— Simon Newcomb
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The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his…
— Henry David Thoreau
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