"I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee……" — George Washington Carver

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• Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut… — Arthur Eddington
• It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. — Thomas Jefferson
• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and… — Thomas Huxley
• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the… — John Tillotson
• The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private… — Russell Kirk
• Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so… — Henry David Thoreau
• My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give… — Enid Blyton
• I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb
• When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a… — Donna Tartt
• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end… — P.G. Wodehouse
• He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. — Chris Bohjalian

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