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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience… — Martin Ryle
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed… — Abraham Flexner
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… — John Burroughs
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the… — H.G. Wells
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious… — J I Packer
Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what… — Luis Palau
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more… — Emil Ludwig
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and… — Thomas Sowell
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful,… — Wendell Phillips
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable… — H. L. Mencken
If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember… — Glen Campbell
My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like,… — Britney Spears
As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases. — Edward Abbey
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk… — Alexander Hamilton
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole… — Alexander Hamilton
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed. — James F. Cooper

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