Quotes 4281 till 4300 of 20393.
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General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3 -
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
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Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
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George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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