Quotes 7181 till 7200 of 10331.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
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