"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though…
— Annie Besant
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their…
— Barbara Boxer
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in…
— William J. Clinton
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be…
— Isaac Asimov
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
— Frederick Douglass
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake,…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made…
— Charles Francis Richter
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It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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