Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
I ask how far away the eye can discern a non-luminous body, as, for instance, a mountain. It will be very plainly visible if the sun is behind it; and could be seen at a greater or less distance according to the sun's place in the sky.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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Eternities before the first-born day,Or ere the first sun fledged his wings of flame,Calm Night, the everlasting and the same,A brooding mother over chaos lay.
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I do not claim any ability to read God's mind. I am sure of only one thing. When we look at the glory of stars and galaxies in the sky and the glory of forests and flowers in the living world around us, it is evident that God loves diversity. Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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I ask how far away the eye can discern a non-luminous body, as, for instance, a mountain. It will be very plainly visible if the sun is behind it; and could be seen at a greater or less distance according to the sun's place in the sky.
