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922 quotes by 723 authors
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so…
— C. Everett Koop
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If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.
— John Gallagher, Jr.
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In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned…
— Ruth First
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I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my…
— Gordon Parks
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
— Ambrose
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Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable…
— Viktor Schauberger
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
— Henri Matisse
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There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its…
— Sigmund Freud
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I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.
— Meredith L. Young-Sowers
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The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too…
— David Deida
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The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.
— Gary Hamel
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How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don’t care;…
— Pope Francis
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The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get…
— Marc Gafni
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I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as…
— Hugo Weaving
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To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people…
— Bill Maher
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Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others,…
— Paul Valery
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Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted…
— Louis Menand
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Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
— Ernst Mayr
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