Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
Rajneesh
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When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.
Brian Fallon
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
Mark Twain
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If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.
Idries Shah
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
Chester Himes
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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
Virginia Woolf
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I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
Archimedes
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I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
Cloris Leachman
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The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.
Nicholas Samstag
