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By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more…
— Werner Heisenberg
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first…
— Abraham Flexner
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me…
— James Nasmyth
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so…
— Vera Brittain
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.…
— Judith Orloff
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was,…
— Art Buchwald
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The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have…
— Jeff Bezos
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Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.
— T. Harv Eker
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through…
— Louis Agassiz
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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond…
— Isaac Newton
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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods…
— Charles Darwin
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much…
— John Herschel
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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
— Charles Francis Richter
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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and…
— Joseph Henry
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Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they…
— Roderick Murchison
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering…
— Charles Lyell
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There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students…
— George Wald
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during…
— Hippocrates
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