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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of… — Mikhail Bakunin
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' — Harvey Ball
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about… — Charles A. Beard
The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?' — Glenn Beck
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and… — Samuel Beckett
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. — Julie Burchill
My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' — James Caan
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of… — Samuel Alexander
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible,… — Arthur C. Clarke
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,… — Elizabeth Bowen
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants,… — Henry Beston
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. — Jack Smith
The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let… — Confucius
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is… — Mary Wollstonecraft

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