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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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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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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The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.
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For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.
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I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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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.
