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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise. — Moliere
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels… — Thomas Aquinas
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good… — Thomas A. Edison
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the… — Alexander Fleming
...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then… — Marlo Morgan
Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is. — Luis Villalobos
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the… — Algernon Sidney
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the… — John Arbuthnot
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the… — Jerry Bridges
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will… — Aristotle
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood… — Bharati Mukherjee
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is… — Karen Armstrong

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