Upon One Quotes
60 quotes by 52 authors
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together…
— Orison Swett Marden
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You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who…
— Sarah McLachlan
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one…
— Hutton Gibson
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All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and…
— Isaac Newton
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In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
— Edward Sapir
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Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
— Aeschylus
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Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the…
— Isaac Newton
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TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:…
— Ambrose Bierce
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No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope…
— John Keats
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The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to…
— Walt Disney
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A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole…
— Lucy Larcom
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What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt…
— Henry Miller
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