“ There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion. ”
- Michael J. Tucker- Copy
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“ I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to. ”
- John F. Kerry- Copy
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“ Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. ”
- Bo Bennett- Copy
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“ Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it. ”
- Daisy Ashford- Copy
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“ Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial. ”
- Thomas S. Kuhn- Copy
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“ Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man? world without a sun. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied… ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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“ Every landscape appears first of all as a vast chaos … . demonstrate that understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another; that the true reality is never the most obvious; and that the nature of truth is already indicated by the care it takes to remain elusive… … ”
- Claude Levi Strauss- Copy
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“ My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called Virginia, was herself also born in Bluefield. She had studied at West Virginia University and was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's later life was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing resulting from a scarlet fever infection that came at the time when she was a student at WVU. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ”
- George Boole- Copy
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“ To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity. ”
- George Sand- Copy
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“ All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent… And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny. ”
- Smiley Blanton- Copy
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