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The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.


Charles H. Townes

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persu...
DONNA J. HARAWAY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
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LEMONY SNICKET I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off ba...
PRINCE OF WALES CHARLES The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off...
PRINCE OF WALES CHARLES The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off ba...
PRINCE CHARLES Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
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Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; a...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember y...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land,...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON The wishing gate opens into nothing.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he ke...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON We are all at times unconscious prophets.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affec...
DR. CHARLES H. MAYO MD If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
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