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
  • New York
  • Wednesday
  • Puzzle

• 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
  • People
  • Why
  • Faith

• The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Fire
  • Phases
  • Craving

• 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
  • Cases
  • Difficulty
  • Diagnosis

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Strings
  • Apron

• 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
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Room

• 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
  • World
  • Responsibility
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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Fact
  • Deceptive

• 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
  • Giving
  • Pain
  • Artist

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

  

  Asher Roth
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Be Yourself

• 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
  • Peace
  • Delight
  • Manners

• 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
  • Glory
  • Skins
  • Dictionary

• I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

  

  Michael Caine
  • World
  • Car
  • Poor

• Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.

  

  Al-Mutanabbi
  • Death
  • Light
  • Darkness

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Reason
  • Situation
  • Billions

• 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