Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?


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Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co...
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one meth...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with auster...
ABRAHAM KUYPER
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPER
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we...
ABRAHAM FLEXNER
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the righ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, an...
ABRAHAM CLARK
As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War ...
ABRAHAM CLARK
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
ABRAHAM CAHAN
You must never tire fighting Satan.
ABRAHAM CAHAN
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
ABRAHAM CAHAN
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
ABRAHAM CAHAN
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probab...
ABRAHAM CAHAN
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
ABRAHAM CAHAN