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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation… — John Bates Clark
Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and… — Frank Knight
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. — Jeremy Rifkin
The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic… — Eduard Bruckner
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon… — Lyndon B. Johnson
How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the… — Pope Francis
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Reginald John Campbell
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its… — Diane Ackerman
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a… — Pope Francis
I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them. — Jonny Wilkinson
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second… — John Quincy Adams
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space.… — Robert Grudin
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they… — Nicolas Chamfort
Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want… — Dave Barry
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. — Lionel Trilling
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. — Livy

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