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On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. — Jasper Johns
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't… — Edwin Land
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is… — Michel de Montaigne
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. — Josh Billings
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict… — Clark Moustakas
I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It needs as much generosity to take as to give. — Ivan Panin
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do… — Benicio Del Toro
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand… — Frederick Douglass
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands… — Thomas Jefferson
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. — John Dewey
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind… — Shirley MacLaine
I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out… — Fred Astaire
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,… — Sogyal Rinpoche

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