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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
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
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
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
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. — Joseph Joubert
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
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
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
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
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
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. — Moliere
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
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
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such… — Wyndham Lewis
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons

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