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«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
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be given, blazed, blazes, cooperation, credit, developments, discoveries, due, due to, improvements, invariably, involve, subsequent, trail, trailing, trails
«If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
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Discovery
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discoveries, due, patient
«COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adjustment, adjustments, adversary, compromise, conflicting, conflict of interest, deprived, deprived of, deprives, due, interests, justly, not due, satisfaction
«I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too»
«First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too»
«Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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due, due to, products, reverence, sacraments, seriousness, the sacrament, treats
«If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Pain
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be due, distressed, due, dues, due to, estimate, estimates, estimating, external, not due, revoke, revoked, The Thing, thing in itself
«It is right to give every man his due.»
«Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.»
«Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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attended, common people, degree, due, good sense, preservation, rely
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