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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the… — Hippocrates
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ… — Emanuel Swedenborg
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down.… — Langston Hughes
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it. — Elbert Hubbard
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense. — Winston Churchill
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. — Albert Einstein
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the… — Edgar Cayce
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a… — Washington Irving
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and… — Bertrand Russell
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. — Aeschylus
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves… — Cesar Chavez
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility… — Cesar Chavez
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and… — Abraham Lincoln

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