"If we glance at the most important revolutions……" — Wilhelm von Humboldt

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• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we… — Nellie Bly
• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great… — Benjamin Peirce
• Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
• Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of… — Therese of Lisieux
• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has… — Soren Kierkegaard
• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody… — P.J. O'Rourke
• To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended… — Samuel Johnson
• Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to… — Freeman Dyson
• Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — David C. Stark
• In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem… — Bronislaw Malinowski

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