Province Quotes
126 quotes by 115 authors
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
— Leonard Cohen
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory…
— Sun Tzu
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War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
— William Penn
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There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus…
— Arthur Eddington
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
— Francis Bacon
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology…
— Hugh Miller
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I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides…
— Louis Agassiz
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
— Frederick The Great
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Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
— Hudson Taylor
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the…
— Eugene Wigner
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow…
— Ada Lovelace
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I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
— Albert Einstein
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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more…
— Paul Morphy
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When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Who Wrote These Province Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 126 Province Quotes, led by these top contributors: