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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is…
— Jacques Monod
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You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,…
— Linus Pauling
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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.
— Andre Agassi
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
— Pharrell Williams
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
— Miranda Richardson
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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
— C.S. Lewis
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God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
— Ayn Rand
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists…
— Georges Braque
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
— Joseph Joubert
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Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
— Dan Simmons
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is…
— Charles Baudelaire
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual…
— Mary McCarthy
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on…
— Ruth Stout
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
— Moliere
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if…
— Linus Pauling
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