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Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a…
— Mitch Hedberg
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During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
— W.C. Fields
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Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held…
— Barry Long
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the…
— Thomas More
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We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of…
— John Dalton
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Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her:…
— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because…
— Unknown Author
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There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights…
— Greg Louganis
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a…
— Champfleury
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There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms…
— Thrangu Rinpoche
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Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in…
— Unknown Author
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before…
— Christiaan Barnard
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So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which…
— Roger McDonald
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In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.…
— Marjory Stephenson
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When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and…
— Gregor Mendel
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole…
— James Hutton
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The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is…
— Unknown Author
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.…
— Nelson Goodman
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Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several…
— Unknown Author
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
— Daniel Dennett
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I am quite sure they are a little bit angry, they want revenge. I think they've wanted that since Monday morning. They look forward to…
— Sven-Goran Eriksson
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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world…
— John Searle
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