Thus Quotes
2771 Thus quotes by 1600 unique authors
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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several…
— Sun Tzu
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Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping…
— Gene Tunney
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Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
— Antonio Gaudi
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs…
— Adolf Loos
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We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a…
— Edith Stein
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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear…
— Edith Stein
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are…
— R. Scott Bakker
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Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source…
— Frank Chodorov
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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to…
— Neil Postman
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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
— Adrian Goldsworthy
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The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary…
— William Vickrey
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And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything edible, from…
— Harvey Broome
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While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs…
— Carol J. Adams
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Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get…
— James Webb Young
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Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered…
— Joseph Pilates
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Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.
— Joseph Pilates
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and…
— Chauncey Wright
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The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
— Ernst Bacon
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The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.
— Mikhail Turovsky
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More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and…
— Ismail Serageldin
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For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we…
— William Romaine
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In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean…
— Arvid Carlsson
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Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
— Robert Black
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Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to…
— Al-Jahiz
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The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying…
— Peter D. Mitchell
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