George Sarton Quotes
The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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You can't sit down right,Cause your jeans are too tight,And you're lucky it's ladies night.With your big empty purse,Every week it gets worse,At least your breasts cost more than hers.
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I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
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Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
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Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
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The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.
