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«I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.»
Author: Kid Rock
(Musician)
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
Canadian, Canadians, extent, Internet in, porno, satellite, satellites
«It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
communicate, detestable, extent, gauge, gauged, gauging, grievance, grievances, permits, reflect, smash, smashed, smashing, The Weight, unbearable
«Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
extent
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
attainment, effected, extent, paradoxical, scientific, the help, to a great extent
«Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
according, ADD, drawn, equal, Equal rights, extent, individual, individual liberty, Individual right, individual rights, law, liberty, limits, plenitude, rightful, rights, right to liberty, The Law, tyrant, unobstructed, violates, violating
«It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Anger,
Passion
| Keywords:
extent, The Right Time, the right way, To Fly
«I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Religion
| Keywords:
Actions, causality, certain, conceive, conceives, conceive of, conceiving, Creation, creatures, directly, extent, fact, individuals, influence, influencing, judgment, of his own, personal, personal judgment, sit, sit in, spite, to that extent, to what extent
«One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
Above the Law, debatable, disco, enjoys, esteem, extent, indisputable, newly, overthrowing, overthrown, overthrows, sciences
«My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
captain, collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, directed, extent, mastered, Noisier, noisiest, passenger, thereby
«Men to a great extent believe what they want to - although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
although, basis, extent, to a great extent
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