Samuel Johnson Quotes
Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
Samuel Johnson
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C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
Blaise Pascal
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A sense of utter loneliness-loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness-enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
Edward Bellamy
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We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
Alan Watts
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
Maria Montessori
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Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers.
Alan Grayson
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Earth-worms abound in England in many different stations. Their castings may be seen in extraordinary numbers on commons and chalk-downs, so as almost to cover the whole surface, where the soil is poor and the grass short and thin.
Charles Darwin
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Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.
Alex Clare
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Becoming a mother made me better understand how blessed I am to do this job.
Bianca Balti
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I needed to be there to support her, as a mother and as a human being, ... All mothers should pay attention to what she is saying.
Nadia McCaffrey
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It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”
Edward Frenkel
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Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
Ray Bradbury
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
Samuel Johnson