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10481 Used quotes by 6288 unique authors

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn… — Unknown Author
I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and… — Nicolaus Zinzendorf
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an… — Tadatoshi Akiba
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits… — Kenichi Ohmae
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand… — Canvass White
This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does… — Canvass White
To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient… — Canvass White
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn… — Unknown Author
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Unknown Author
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Unknown Author
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. — Leon M. Lederman
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods… — Hans Bethe
But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended — David Chase
We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe.… — Duane Gish
Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may… — Irving Copi
It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything… — Louise Wilson
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white… — Kofi Annan
Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And… — Ziauddin Yousafzai

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