“ A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ”
- Lord Dunsany- Copy
- 3.5K
“ We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. ”
- Sarah Hughes- Copy
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“ Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe… ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
- 2.6K
“ What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child. ”
- A. S. Neill- Copy
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“ You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
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“ The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem. ”
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call laws of nature. ”
- Thomas Huxley- Copy
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“ In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. ”
- Zen Saying- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. ”
- Patricia Hampl- Copy
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“ Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as an association as possible. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
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“ The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ”
- Johannes Kepler- Copy
- 1.2K
“ War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. ”
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt- Copy
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“ We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams — even if it takes a lifetime. ”
- Vijali Hamilton- Copy
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“ What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 2K
“ Four years ago, I wondered who the hell was voting for Bush And then I found out that some of my friends voted for him. ”
- Eric Cheng- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of mass psychology - inasmuch as the mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another. ”
- Charles Fort- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Miss Farrell has a voice like some unparalleled phenomenon of nature. She is to singers what Niagara is to waterfalls. ”
- Alfred Frankenstein- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. ”
- Shirley Hazzard- Copy
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