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In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye… — John Burroughs
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,… — John Stuart Mill
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God. — Salvador Dali
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be… — John B. S. Haldane
Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know… — Andrew Jackson
It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes… — Elvis Presley
I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers. — David Duchovny
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas
We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should… — Mahatma Gandhi
The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me! — Adolf Hitler
I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the… — Winston Churchill
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis… — Winston Churchill
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes. — Winston Churchill
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic.… — Judy Chicago
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. — Arnold Newman
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the… — Richard J. Foster
I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer.… — Jennifer Lopez
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the… — David Hasselhoff
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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