Occurrences Quotes
60 quotes by 55 authors
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;…
— Jacques Monod
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"…
— Irving Langmuir
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Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence.... From the hour the Pilgrims…
— George Washington
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A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
— Erich Fromm
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Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
— Chris Mooney
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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.…
— Bernhard von Cotta
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I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place…
— Xu Zhiyong
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Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable…
— Joseph Beuys
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Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
— Carl Jung
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The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to…
— Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and…
— David M. Raup
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.…
— David Abram
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends…
— David Abram
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think…
— Albert Einstein
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Juanita Violini delivers a world most of us can't even begin to imagine. This is something quite beyond strange occurrences. Rather, Violini brings us a…
— Linda L. Richards
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I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing…
— Jim Hodges
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How we act and dress reflects how we regard where we are and who we are. Let me demonstrate. One of the natural occurrences in…
— Harold G. Hillam
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