Thing Quotes
36662 quotes by 13492 authors
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which…
— Harry S. Truman
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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove…
— Mark Twain
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business,…
— Vernon Howard
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Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as…
— Tim Ferriss
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We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which…
— Ernest Holmes
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Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the…
— John Owen
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption…
— John Owen
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Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God…
— J I Packer
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray…
— Oswald Chambers
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In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have…
— Bertrand Russell
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There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
— Fay Weldon
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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by…
— Aristotle
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The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron…
— Hermann Minkowski
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base.…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity.…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
— Muhammad Yunus
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If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.
— Muhammad Yunus
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