Quotes 241 till 260 of 1127.
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Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is...
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 7 min 25 sec -
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
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For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
Quoted in Karl Ruhrberg et al., Art of the 20th Century (2000) -
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
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For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
Variae, Bk. 2, no. 40; p. 38.
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