Set Quotes
7944 quotes by 5058 authors
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Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
— Mark Epstein
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Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it…
— Richard Baxter
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;…
— John Flavel
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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
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages…
— Dante Alighieri
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular…
— Bertrand Russell
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the…
— Louis Pasteur
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking…
— James Fenton
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The more goals you set, the more goals you get.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you…
— Don Shula
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Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right…
— John Dewey
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling…
— John Taylor Gatto
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I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build…
— Ratan Tata
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future…
— Ratan Tata
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to…
— John Ruskin
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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let…
— John Naisbitt
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Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.
— Richard Branson
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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