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15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors

Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam. — Stephane Simian
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how… — Tamar Jacoby
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the… — C. Wright Mills
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals… — Jimmy Hoffa
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once… — Otto Hermann Kahn
So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which… — Roger McDonald
There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do… — Thomas Woods
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino… — John N. Bahcall
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science,… — Hannes Alfven
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Unknown Author
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Unknown Author
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Unknown Author
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits
If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live… — Ambrose
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think… — Richard Ben Cramer
This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can… — Napoleon III
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to… — Isaac Asimov
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop? — Robert L. Park

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