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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.
Source: Grand Piano (Narada Anniversay Collection) Album liner -
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it's easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
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The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
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The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
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