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When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.


Theodore Gomperz

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ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water ...
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JONAH GOLDBERG Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT market dynamism has replaced dogmatism.
COLIN POWELL The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
WILLIAM OSLER The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism
WILLIAM OSLER Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon b...
FREDERICK SANGER Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
THEODORE REIK Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A mind too active is no mind at all.
THEODORE ROETHKE If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
THEODORE PARKER Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed howeve...
THEODORE PARKER Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral...
THEODORE WHITE Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and ackn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing e...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the Americ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side o...
THEODORE BIKEL It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
THEODORE ROETHKE We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's ...
THEODORE ZELDIN The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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