Sine Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our…
— Stephen Ambrose
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A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes…
— Maureen O'Hara
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After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.
— Leonhard Euler
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Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
— Seneca the Younger
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Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
— Pliny the Elder
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To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to…
— E. Cobham Brewer
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I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis…
— Terence McKenna
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
— Seneca the Younger
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Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated…
— Mary McCarthy
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Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
— Arthur Laffer
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Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
— William of Ockham
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
— Janet Malcolm
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets…
— John Dewey
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I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
— Sarah Vowell
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Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
— Arthur Miller
Who Wrote These Sine Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Sine Quotes as follows: