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More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied… — Samuel Johnson
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble.… — George S. Patton
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support… — Benjamin Franklin
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and… — Jack Steinberger
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me… — George Bernard Shaw
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.… — Cesar Chavez
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth… — Samuel Johnson
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in… — Janet Morris
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. — Henry Moore
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it… — Winston Churchill
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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