The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.


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Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things.
VIRGIL
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND
Why should things have to change? People go after Christianity ... It's almost Christianity as a sco...
DAVID HANSHAW
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
I think every team has a prodigal son, probably. What he's given to the city as much as what he's gi...
PAT RILEY
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
God’s plan is to get back the earth that has been given over to Satan by man
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has...
JOAN GREENE
God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Yes, the name has been changed because this park gives more emphasis to science and education. There...
M.V. GOVINDAN
I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never ...
DAN RATHER
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story ful...
C.S. LEWIS
A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
I know we've been able to do things that have given them tickets to become very successful in life.
JAMES GEISLER
The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident...
ANUJ SOMANY
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
FREDA ADLER
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI
If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
Our main concern is the confusion about under which laws he [Parkin] has been detained. If he has be...
LIZ THOMPSON
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by yo...
STEPHEN D'MELLO
If paparazzi armed with telephoto lenses have long been the scourge of the rich and famous; civilian...
ALEX MORRITT
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
YIDDISH PROVERB
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity
YIDDISH PROVERB
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
DOROTHY PARKER
Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
All of these things have given us the impression that the skinhead movement has been growing.
BARRY MORRISON
Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE
The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE
Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE
It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Nothing has been given to me.
FREDDY ADU
I'm very skeptical as to the ability to reach a comprehensive agreement given how little has been ac...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has bee...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and oppo...
ROY T. BENNETT
It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
This is a ministry that has been given to me.
AL GREEN
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as w...
THOMAS HOBBES
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
UNKNOWN
A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Knowledge is curiosity to know more.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Do yourself a favor instead of waking up and telling yourself that it's another boring day at work o...
ELIZABETH ANN GREY
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
ALEXIS CARREL
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH
You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND
Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER
I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH
What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Ever...
BABA TUNDE OJO-OLUBIYO
When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE
Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE
If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a phi...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his pe...
KEI MILLER
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever give...
OSCAR WILDE
The order has been given to shoot these scavenging animals.
ANDREW KUMBAKOR
All I have to say is what you know already, to confirm what you already know of the message of the P...
YUSUF ISLAM
Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in...
STEVEN REDHEAD
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It has been wet, but the recent storms have been warm. We would like to see more of the precipitatio...
DAN FLORY
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON

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