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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

Logical consequences are the scarecrows

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

A world of facts lies

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

It is the fate of

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

Fact I know; and Law

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

Mathematics may be compared to

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

There is the greatest practical

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

A pragmatic leader's core job

A pragmatic leader's core job is not just to create more followers. Rather, it should be to create more leaders i.e. those who will take over from him/her. That's the way/what it should be.
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Geoffrey P.  Johnston

Geoffrey P. Johnston

Kingston Whig-Standard

Kingston Whig-Standard
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

Credit is what enables people

Credit is what enables people to spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

Do you know? You will

Do you know? You will end up developing/learning a lot more about yourself and your God-given potentials the moment you start teaching others. That infers, the more you teach others, the more enlightened/advanced you will become. Thus, have the gut to teach the world right here and even beyond.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

If/Once you believe in yourself

If/Once you believe in yourself .i.e. If/Once you become self confident. The opinions of someone else/others cannot control you/your own ideology/philosophy. Rather, they will only become tips for you. So, dare to be/remain self-confident.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

You shouldn’t waste your time

You shouldn’t waste your time trying to judge the person whose name has been written after this quote.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

Don’t forget three rules for

Don’t forget three rules for success : Never tell anyone everything you have, you know and you can do.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

As long as the words

As long as the words in your mouth, it is your own; when they are once spoken, they are another’s.
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Gillie Potter

Gillie Potter

Good evening England. This is

Good evening England. This is Gillie Potter speaking to you in English.
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Vikrant Parsai

Vikrant Parsai

There is nothing but comparison

There is nothing but comparison that makes people happy or miserable.
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Kristine Di Grigoli

Kristine Di Grigoli

The world is my canvas

The world is my canvas and my camera is the perfect tool to capture everything around me. I always make it a habit to carry my camera with me so I will never suffer the regret of wishing I had.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

Every challenge of a lifetime

Every challenge of a lifetime is specifically designed to help you to get to where you need to be. Yes, so do challenge your challenges and never surrender to them.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

If you fail to discover/fulfill

If you fail to discover/fulfill your God-given destiny. Then, God will have no other option than to use you to fulfill someone else's destiny. And guess what? He (God) might do that at your own expense (at your own detriment). Therefore, having known that. Endeavour to discover and fulfill your God-given destiny by all means. For, you've got to do just that.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

Information evokes transformation/direction. Now, that's

Information evokes transformation/direction. Now, that's why anyone who is informed cannot be deformed intellectually and even otherwise. Therefore, quest for positive informations as long as you live. For, you've got a lot to bargain with them.
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André Breton

André Breton

The approval of the public

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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Amit Ray

Amit Ray

Beauty is the feeling of

Beauty is the feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.
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André Breton

André Breton

There is nothing with which

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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André Breton

André Breton

What one hides is worth

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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