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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''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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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
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What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?
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Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
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Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
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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.
