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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case,… — Charles Darwin
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar… — Edward Hoagland
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them… — Adolf Hitler
I'm not God, but I am something similar. — Roberto Duran
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the… — Sigmund Freud
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,… — Primo Levi
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to… — Steve Kerr
We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold. — Bob Cousy
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to… — Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as… — Mick Taylor
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same… — Charlotte Bronte
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that… — Sigmund Freud
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around… — Robert Andrews Millikan
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then… — Francis Bacon
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar… — Mahatma Gandhi
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya

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