Various Quotes
1228 quotes by 1044 authors
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your…
— David Brooks
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The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods…
— John Dewey
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Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social groups of various…
— John Quiggin
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Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only…
— Jennifer Dunn
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Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the…
— William O. Douglas
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The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and…
— Kurt Bills
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Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to…
— Kurt Bills
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I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some…
— Francesca Woodman
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and…
— Walter Murch
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The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of…
— John Amos Comenius
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I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for…
— William Wilberforce
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One should not interpret the word “Revolution†in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of…
— Bhagat Singh
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There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture…
— Gary L. Francione
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I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South…
— Junichiro Koizumi
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The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from…
— Arthur Helps
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's…
— John Milton
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Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will…
— Nathan S. Kline
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
— William C. Bryant
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