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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. — F. E. Adcock
But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one. — Oswald Chambers
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. — Elizabeth Janeway
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been… — Anna Sewell
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.'… — George Washington Carver
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten
In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi… — Unknown Author
A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it.… — Unknown Author
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise… — Bob Lutz
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. — Leon M. Lederman
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries… — Barbara G. Walker
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who… — Robert C. Murphy
One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two million who are silenced in… — Shawn Desman
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is… — Barbara G. Walker
I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of… — Ken Wilber
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when… — Charles Darwin
That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche. — Dennis Miller
The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035. — Unknown Author
...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly… — David Cameron
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and… — Gordon Parks
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at… — James Levine
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau

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