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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably… — James Boswell
Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for… — Louis Pasteur
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of… — Alan Jackson
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to… — William J. Clinton
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,… — Jacques Monod
An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a… — Thomas Sowell
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who… — Pope Benedict XVI
When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express… — Michael Josephson
Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her:… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years,… — Anne Sebba
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at… — Annette O'Toole
I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate… — Liz Greene
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall… — John Jewel
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.… — John Green
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only… — Edwin Muir

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