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A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this… — Medard Boss
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. — Thomas Clarkson
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular… — Henry Mayhew
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.… — Svante Arrhenius
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man… — Gino Bartali
Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people… — danah boyd
After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument… — Walter Rodney
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and… — Oliver Cromwell
One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which… — Napoleon Hill
"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they… — John Ortberg
God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I… — Oswald J. Smith
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas. — Charlotte Bunch
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. — Karl Popper
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or… — David Hume
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or… — Peter Singer
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and… — Ken Wilber
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as… — Tom Stoppard
It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace… — Pema Chodron
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles… — Saint Augustine
Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains... — Gangaji
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of… — Jean Paul
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind… — Noam Chomsky
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow,… — Henry George

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