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Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning… — William Buckland
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — 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
[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting… — Oliver Ellsworth
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,… — H. A. L. Fisher
I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were… — Cory Monteith
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations… — Pope Leo XIII
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening… — Berthold Auerbach
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value… — Franz Boas
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each… — Al-Ghazali
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses,… — Maya Angelou
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it… — Julia Gillard
If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period. — A. C. Green
Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time. — Robin Williams
I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to… — Unknown Author
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,… — Al Gore
This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time. — Tom Ridge
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel

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