George Sarton Quotes

Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly its slow incubation. This was primarily due to Muslims down to the end of the twelfth century, then to Christians.

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• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
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• There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
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• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
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• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
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• I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

  

  Kailash Kher
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  • New
  • Creation

• In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Age
  • Story
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• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Past

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Age
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• There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  

  Sam Ewing
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• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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  • Amazing

• The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Age

• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Up
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• I'm still going strong. I have been very blessed and still am. I love singing. Obviously, at my age, I don't tour with as many dates throughout the year as I did in the past. But I do this to honor my father who was also a singer. I still miss him and his encouragement.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Age
  • Father
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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Age

• I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Freedom
  • WikiLeaks
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• Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.

  

  Anne Mallory
  • World
  • Option
  • Defaults

• Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly its slow incubation. This was primarily due to Muslims down to the end of the twelfth century, then to Christians.

  

  George Sarton
  • Age
  • Spirit
  • Achievement