![The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-education-of-this-president-obama-is-a-protracted-and-often-amusing-process.jpg)
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discovery led perspective
Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side. Jim Fox
discovery alternatives may
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly? Walker Percy
discovery errors joy
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon
discovery justice honor
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow. Winston Churchill
discovery order giving
The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike. Jacob Bronowski
discovery atoms facts
The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. Johannes Stark
discovery magic religion
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work. James Randi
discovery our-world support
I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives. Lamar S. Smith
discovery self competition
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information Friedrich August von Hayek
profound intellectual film
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films. Woody Allen
profound house dry
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. William Faulkner
profound catholic vision
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom. Pope John Paul II
profound matter today
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology. Pope Francis
profound desire eleven
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. Paulo Coelho
profound age active
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times? Ralph Waldo Emerson
profound want able
You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God. Marco Rubio
profound people soul
What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it. Elizabeth Gilbert
profound cages sound
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound John Betjeman
president responsibility
It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time, John Edwards
president statement strong
I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant. Gary Chaison
president strong vibrant vintage
He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.
president top-hats my-favorite
Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well. Ryan Lochte
president liberty
Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional Woodrow Wilson
presidential judgement fit
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
presidential united-states missions
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. William McKinley
presidential relation political-history
I did not have sexual relations with that woman William J. Clinton
president want ships
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship. Sarah Palin