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The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable…

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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the…
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the…
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.
The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science…
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on…
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as…
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far…
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the…
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it…
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present…
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury…

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Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. — Thomas Gray
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what… — William Shakespeare
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury… — Frederick Soddy
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows… — M H Abrams
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. — M H Abrams
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me… — Rabindranath Tagore

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