Quotes with heavier-than-air

Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 4330.

  • Oscar Wilde Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beau Willimon Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Arthur Helps Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Georges Bataille Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Camille Paglia Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ''accepting'' and ''willing'' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Alexander Pope Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Cullen Hightower Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Bernard Beckett Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Horace Mann Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Aeschylus Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Seneca See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Tacitus Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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