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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. — George Bernard Shaw
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. — Leon Trotsky
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid… — Confucius
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. — Robert Breault
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve. — Bertolt Brecht
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in… — Fritjof Capra
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within… — Louis Agassiz
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature. — Anatole France
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. — Adrian Cronauer
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and… — Thomas Jefferson
An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a… — Thomas Sowell
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70… — Stacey King
It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30… — Oscar Robertson

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