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Isaac Newton
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
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Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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James Rippe, M.D.
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry the best words in the best order.
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Italian Proverb
To a quick question, give a slow answer.
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William Thayer Shedd
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
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John Ruskin (1819-1900), British poet, artist,
There is hardly anything in the world
that some man
cannot make a little worse
cannot make a little cheaper
and the people
who consider price only
are this man’s lawful prey.
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Carl Jung
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
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Bruce Barton
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
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Sir Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
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John Updike
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
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