Remains Quotes

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For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an… — Max von Laue
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among… — Tom Lantos
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged. — Roy H. Williams
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more… — Irwin Edman
Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day,… — Ho Chi Minh
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a… — Rosa Luxemburg
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has… — Lincoln Steffens
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They… — Gerhard Richter
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things… — Dogen
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But… — Bernadette Roberts
A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it. — Pliny the Elder
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,… — Adolf Hitler
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is… — Adolf Hitler
You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains. — Bruce Springsteen
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them. — Aeschylus
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example… — C. V. Wedgwood
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite… — George Gershwin
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only… — Will Self
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same -… — Nicholson Baker
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one… — Tatyana Tolstaya
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe,… — Michel Foucault

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