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Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the… — John Templeton
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and… — William C. Menninger
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as… — Luci Shaw
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little… — Michael Kinsley
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly… — Daniel C. Peterson
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want.… — Gerhard Zeiler
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves. — Bill Viola
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom. — John Viney
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they… — Niels Henrik Abel
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political… — Charles Edward Merriam
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to… — Isaac Asimov
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. — Georg Baselitz

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