Minutest Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its…
— Annie Besant
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even…
— Elbert Hubbard
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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not…
— Christian Morgenstern
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Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with…
— Arthur Eddington
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Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,…
— Frederick Soddy
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
— H. L. Mencken
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So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in…
— Steve Tesich
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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving…
— Honore de Balzac
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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far…
— Stephen Spender
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
— Rudyard Kipling
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the…
— Akira Kurosawa
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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
— Fredrik Bajer
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Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space…
— Viktor Schauberger
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If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is…
— John Calvin
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous…
— Alan Watts
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to…
— E T A Hoffmann
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Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and…
— Mike Seabrook
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The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the…
— Ellen G. White
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Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up…
— Frederick William Robertson
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