Joseph Priestley Quotes
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
Joseph Priestley
Quotes to Explore
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.
Hannah Ware
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Walter Kirn
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Chiranjeevi sir is extremely humble and gracious. He is a superstar, but he is one of the nicest, sweetest, most grounded individuals.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
Nate Berkus
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Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid.
V. S. Pritchett
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
Jack Kerouac
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The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.
Valerie Solanas
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All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
Anton Chekhov
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I don't think there is rivalry between the teams in Brazil. We each do our jobs, and we each have our part in MMA.
Anderson Silva
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
Chance The Rapper
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson
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The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.
Mother Teresa
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(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
Christopher Hitchens
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Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.
Margaret Fuller
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
Joseph Priestley
