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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of… — Joseph McCabe
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary… — Thomas Frank
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,… — Julian Sanchez
The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely… — Elisabeth Eaves
An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires… — Jerry Thomas
Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are… — James Webb Young
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key,… — Georges Seurat
Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great… — Malcolm Arnold
Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot… — Atom Egoyan
People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general. — Cindy Gallop
Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted… — Tsutomu Ohshima
What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live… — Karl Hess
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has… — John Calvin
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a… — Rudolph A. Marcus
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could… — John Edensor Littlewood
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.… — Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular… — Alfred North Whitehead
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which… — Samuel Johnson
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the… — Rudolf Arnheim
It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world. — Sri Chinmoy
I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it. — Davy Jones
Hate generalizes; love is particular. — Erica Jong
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is… — Rajneesh

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