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God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles, I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.
Topic: Churches
Author: William Drummond
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Topic: Evolution
Author: Charles R Darwin
If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.
Topic: Duty
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions!
Topic: Sports
Author: Daniel R Evans
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Rene Descartes
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tel
Topic: Boxing
Author: Jeanette Winterson
The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again.
Topic: Footsteps
Author: Horace
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
Topic: Thinking
Author: John Dewey
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
Topic: Absence
Author: William Shakespeare
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Susan Sontag
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Topic: Enemy
Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
Topic: Thanksgiving Day
Author: John Keble
It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
Topic: Cowards
Author: Robert S Surtees
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Topic: Jury
Author: Robert Frost
Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Fernanda Bartolme
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
Topic: Dew
Author: George Eliot
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Topic: Imagination
Author: Carl Sagan
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Anonymous