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Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck
The civilities of the great are never thrown away. — Samuel Johnson
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate… — Douglas Hyde
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. — Matthew Arnold
"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly… — Oliver B. Greene
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social… — Natalie Portman
That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant… — Courtney Love
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon… — Jack Gilbert
From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of… — Confucius
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s… — Ulrike Meinhof
I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex… — Frances Wright
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone! — William Wordsworth
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our… — Winston Churchill
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has… — Marcus Aurelius
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. — William Faulkner
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of… — Ronald Reagan
Nothing bonds a group of people better when they are thrown into a situation where they have no idea what's going on and what's going… — Michael Stahl-David
Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs… — Roseanne Barr
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and… — Charles Horton Cooley
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into… — Angela Davis
I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but… — Zooey Deschanel
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind… — Agyness Deyn

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