A Quotes
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“All scientists must be great thinkers or philosophers before they dwell on any scientific research.”
“All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right.”
“All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.”
“All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.”
“All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.”
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
“All scriptures are blasphemy, when peddled as exclusive, infallible handbook to divinity.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“All Scriptures gives hope.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.”
“All seasons are beautifully filled with splendid wonders.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All seasons are spectacular.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“All seasons have something to offer”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.”
Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.
“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
Source: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
“All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between bodies. One fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is that all men are different, there being unity in variety. Even for a drunkard, there are some Mantras-even for a man going to a prostitute!”
Source: Complete Works
“All sectarianism is a violation of human rights.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.”
“All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.”
“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not.”
“All seek perfection from our parents … Just wait till your parents start depending on you, that is when your own perfection, or lack thereof, will be apparent.”
“All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.”
“All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.”
“All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.”
“All self-help authors are like babysitters. Because they have to lead and nurture us until we are mentally fit to accomplish anything in life.”
“All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark”
“All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.”
“All sensible investing is value investing”
“All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”
Source: Art
“All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.”
Source: Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography
“All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness”
Source: The Essential Ken Wilber
“All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.”
“All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”
“All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.”
Source: Of the Standard of Taste
“All separation is born of labels,
Tear those labels and there'll be light.
Once there is oneness in heart,
Oneness of humanity will manifest alright.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.”
“All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.”
“All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.”
Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
“All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. . . . The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.)”
Source: Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
“All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“All service is the same with God.”
“All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.”
“All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.”
“All setbacks hurt, but not all setbacks need to haunt. And so often when we refuse to let setbacks stop us from pursuing a dream, the more unforgettable the heartaches along the way, the deeper the thrill of victory.”
“All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”