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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter… — Wilfred Trotter
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as… — Francis Crick
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and… — Charles Babbage
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as… — James Madison
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,… — Adam Sedgwick
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. — Joseph Goebbels
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally… — Robert Wright
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… — Hugh Miller
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only… — Edwin Muir
One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats… — Takeda Shingen
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people. — Mark Cuban
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the… — Tertullian
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech? — Bryant Gumbel
As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name… — Brad Wilkerson
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought… — Lewis Howard Latimer
When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far… — C. Everett Koop
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels. — Saint Augustine
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. — Ovid
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,… — Charles Baudelaire

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