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«A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
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«Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.»
Author: Raymond Lindquist
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
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«And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.»
Author: Bible
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«A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.»
«Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
civil, familiar, familiar with, sociable
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
acquires, admittedly, association, familiar, inferiors, professorial, pupils, rapidly, self-satisfied, waking
«A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.»
«Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
be well, creature, exclaim, exclaimed, exclaiming, exclaims, familiar, wine
«Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Advice
| Keywords:
by no means, familiar, vulgar
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