Sphere Quotes
390 quotes by 324 authors
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
— Paul Cezanne
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Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out…
— Paul Brunton
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We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an…
— Juan Somavia
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It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand…
— Arthur Machen
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Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society…
— Shelby Steele
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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic…
— Grover Cleveland
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A woman’s sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.
— M. Russell Ballard
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities…
— Jane Goodall
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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
— Matthew Shipp
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There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of…
— Hendrik Verwoerd
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike…
— William Robertson Smith
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in…
— Fred Thompson
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Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows…
— William Godwin
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Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as…
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that…
— Archimedes
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The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.…
— John Heisman
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
— Harold H. Greene
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To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to…
— Val Plumwood
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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my…
— Moses Mendelssohn
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