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taken class littles
I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by. Andy Roddick
taken thinking government
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages? Margaret Mead
taken names surprise
Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise. Gregory David Roberts
taken procrastination maturity
One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for. Hugh Prather
taken gossip truth-is
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. Gore Vidal
taken majority phrases
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more. Jack White
taken thinking crackpots
Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in. Harry S Truman
taken demand life-is
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral. Immanuel Kant
taken dark way
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. J. K. Rowling
science branches curious
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. Ernst Mayr
science men gnats
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable. Henry David Thoreau
science fiction would-be
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out. Robert Sheckley
science moon light
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other? William Herschel
science sky memorial
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
science space mystery
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
science execution genius
Execution is the chariot of genius. William Blake
science age earth
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. William Cowper
science discovery long
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. Xenophanes