George Sarton Quotes
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
Quotes to Explore
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
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A man can preach no better than he prays.
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I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.
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I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.
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I am a United States citizen and I vote.
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I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.
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It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
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Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
