Best Myriad Sayings
132 Myriad quotes by 121 unique authors
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came…
— Walt Whitman
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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
— Mark Twain
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Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
— Herman Melville
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This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the…
— Garrison Keillor
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I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I…
— Jeanne Moreau
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The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections…
— Thomas DiLorenzo
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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be,…
— Laozi
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NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of…
— Burt Rutan
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Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings…
— Frederick Lenz
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The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When…
— Frederick Lenz
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Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out…
— John Ortberg
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
— Michael Shermer
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As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going…
— Loren Eiseley
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That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your…
— Michel Gondry
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Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power.…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some…
— George Perkins Marsh
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I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I…
— John Travolta
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This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.
— Sidney Jourard
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It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves…
— John F. Carlson
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And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and…
— Bayard Taylor
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