Movements Quotes

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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to… — Epictetus
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements… — Mikhail Lomonosov
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. — Robert M. Lindner
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers… — Jean Larteguy
I want to ask parents, when daughters turn 11 or 14, they keep a tab on their movements. Have these parents ever asked their sons… — Narendra Modi
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and… — Rabindranath Tagore
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes;… — Gilbert Ryle
Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. — Robert C. Solomon
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and… — Franz Stampfl
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them… — Thomas Sowell
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with… — Henri Bergson
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
If you think too much about being original, you're gonna be stuck some day. The most stupid or easy movements can be dope; don't dig… — Menno Simons
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and… — Walter Bagehot
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given… — Bob Barr

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