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“A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.”

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Author:Alyce Cornyn-Selby

“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

Source: Letters

“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”

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Book:Persons and Places: My host the world

Source: Persons and Places: My host the world

“The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”

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Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”

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Author:Confucius

“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”

“The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.”

“I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Those whose thinking is disciplined by science, like all others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Such visions and hope and faith are not a part of science.”

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Author:Arthur Compton

“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow

“Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.”

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Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus