Placed Quotes
913 quotes by 776 authors
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All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper…
— Og Mandino
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If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the…
— Nelson A. Miles
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Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what…
— Bobby Knight
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
— Seneca the Younger
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch…
— Edmund Husserl
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,…
— Roderick Murchison
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the…
— Louis Pasteur
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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet…
— Vince Lombardi
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As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make…
— Lyn Nofziger
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
— Walter Scott
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Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
— Michael Polanyi
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,…
— Humphry Davy
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
— Jeremy Bentham
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[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and…
— Martin Luther
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