John Burroughs Quotes

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.

John Burroughs

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• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

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• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
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• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

  M. C. Escher
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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  

  Ouida
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• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Chinese

• I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

  

  G-Eazy
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• I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.

  

  Venus Williams
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• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
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• I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
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• I am a normal guy.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
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• In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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• I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• It's important for me to exalt my players in their strengths and to try and cover their weakness, no?

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Important

• Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.

  

  Kanye West
  • World
  • True
  • Beautiful

• A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Science
  • Independent
  • River

• Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

  

  Confucius
  • Alone
  • Superior Man
  • Watchful

• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Science
  • Alone