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Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We… — William Devane
[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits… — Unknown Author
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually… — Jeff Baxter
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Unknown Author
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Unknown Author
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les thÃ©ories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets… — Frank Kermode
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Unknown Author
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. — Unknown Author
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable. — Beau Brummell
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of… — Unknown Author
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish… — Elliot W. Eisner
If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by… — John Viney
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them. — Nancy Kress
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness… — Charles Dickens
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden
We turn from the light to see. — Don Paterson
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary… — Jerry Fodor

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