Traceable Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that…
— John Cleese
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the…
— Lewis Carroll
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
— George Eliot
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Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The…
— Nikola Tesla
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Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
— J C Ryle
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There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty…
— Henry Ford
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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
— John Ruskin
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
— Ford Frick
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
— Manuel Puig
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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
— Henry Miller
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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue…
— John Updike
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We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Many failures are traceable to the lack of proper commitment. Very often we make a beginning on the spur of the moment, neglecting the important…
— Joseph Benziger
Who Wrote These Traceable Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Traceable Quotes as follows: