Albertus Magnus Quotes
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
Quotes to Explore
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.
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I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.
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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.
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Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
