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Alexis Carrel
Everyone makes a greater effort
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
97
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
345
Katharine Hepburn
If you want to sacrifice
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
70
Arthur Cayley
As for everything else, so
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
16
Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal.
Elegance is refusal.
29
Lucille Ball
Knowing what you cannot do
Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.
79
E. Kim Nebeuts
To state a theorem and
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
18
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Discovery consists in seeing what
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
101
Mary B. Yates
The larger the island of
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.
23
Emmeline Pankhurst
The argument of the broken
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
142
Albert Einstein
It is mathematics that offers
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
197
Timothy Leary
A man without justice is
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
67
Edna Ferber
A woman can look book
A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
11
William Shakespeare
The more pity, that fools
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
186
Abdul Baha
If a person commit a
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
40
Krishnamurti
Truth is a pathless land.
Truth is a pathless land.
20
Naomi Bliven
Behind almost every woman you
Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.
12
Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
170
Abdul Baha
The most important principle of
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
49
John MacNaughton
Maturity beings to grow when
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
39
Marya Mannes
All really great lovers are
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
68
George Washington
Government is not reason; it
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
138
Abdul Baha
If a man has ten
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
45
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Give what you have. To
Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.
163