Stand Quotes

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Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and .… — Edward Everett Hale
Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I… — Christina Applegate
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that… — Leo Buscaglia
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught… — Ayn Rand
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… — Thomas Jefferson
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged… — Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If… — Anita Roddick
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions… — Charles Darwin
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things… — George Johnson
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before… — Charles Spurgeon
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its… — John Stott
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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