The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
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ALEXANDER BELL Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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{ANDREW} OWNER OF MOTION VISUAL PHOTOGRAPHY My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of m...
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WASHINGTON IRVING Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; b...
WASHINGTON IRVING Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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KAN LIU Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
IVO ANDRIC We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our percept...
ZEPHYR MCINTYRE Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, w...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They have to be prepared to go out in the woods, and we give them maps, and they find their way arou...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. (ALAN ALEXANDRA) MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM “Babies are born with pure hearts, minds and spirits; neither good nor evil but the second they ar...
GIDEON O. OMORUYI There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dorm...
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VICTOR HUGO On these days that exams are coming up, our minds are dedicated to studies 100 percent of the time. ...
ERICK SIQUEIRA It feels good to bring Farm Aid back to the state where it all started-and to see the seeds that wer...
WILLIE NELSON Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN These girls work hard. They stay after practice, they take batting lessons, pitching lessons. The fo...
ANGELA MUNCHEL All that ever was still is constantly changing with the eternal energy of the Universe.
Joseph Ragli...
JOSEPH RAGLIONE Well I love the way the world is your garden
And you plant your seeds and you let them grow
...
DAR WILLIAMS I'm optimistic they can do the job that has been asked of them. Regional planning partners sound ver...
BEA EPSTEIN They ran the play well. Props for them making it, but we should have been more prepared for that.
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DAMIEN HIRST They loved each other enough that they wanted the other one to play as well as they could, then they...
GENE BESS Dirt only covers seeds to teach them how to grow.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I figured out that I'm better off not explaining how and why I do the things that I do. If people ca...
VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to ...
BLAISE PASCAL As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...
SIGMUND FREUD They have a great facility there, well prepared, and we'll keep dividing between Phoenix and Tucson ...
JANET NAPOLITANO To really be free, a Person must open their hearts, minds and souls to the world around them. Only t...
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ELAINE DONNELLY So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, ...
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON People only see what they are prepared to see.
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DREW NEITZEL Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given ...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Great discoveries and improvement invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given c...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL We're shooting the ball well. We're not going to rely on the three but we'll take them if they are t...
DON BUGBEE Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
ELBERT HUBBARD Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace
ELBERT HUBBARD We will continue to offer the SAT classes and tutoring, ... But the key to constantly make scores hi...
CHARLES COLLINS Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be ...
JAMES RAMSEY Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be...
JAMES RAMSEY Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be ...
ALLAN RAMSAY They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
AUBERON WAUGH Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE Small minds always oppose great ideas,but support only small ideas.
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JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his ow...
JOSEPH FARRELL You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT