Eratosthenes Quotes

Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there.

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• I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
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• Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
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• The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

  

  Heraclitus
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• Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

  

  William Osler
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• Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Fact
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• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  

  Sebastian Horsley
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• Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

  

  Alexey Suetin
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• I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself.

  

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• The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

  

  Thomas More
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• Hair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states, small horny, fibrous tubes with bulbous roots, growing out of the skins of mammals; and it was meant to be combed down as flat as possible and held in place with countless wire hairpins.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
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• Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

  

  Haruki Murakami
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• They (Kawasaki) had to buy it special. We didn't have one here, so they got it from our Maui store.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
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• Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.

  

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• When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.

  

  Tom Harkin
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• Our commitment to serving produce from local farms and other sustainable sources is one of the ways we are changing the way people think about and eat fast food.

  

  Steve Ells
  • Sources
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• Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there.

  

  Eratosthenes
  • Sources
  • Rains
  • Declares