Precipitated Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was… — Dan Aykroyd
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there… — H. L. Mencken
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary… — John Dalton
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider… — Vernor Vinge
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions. — Charles Edward Merriam
Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that… — Dave Kopel
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions… — Terence McKenna
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual… — R. D. Laing
But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What… — Tom Robbins
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a… — Willard Gaylin
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain… — Barry Eichengreen
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate… — Ambrose Bierce
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation… — Janna Levin
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon… — Luke Ford
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir. — P.G. Wodehouse
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart.… — Erwin W. Lutzer

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