![Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.](/assets/img/quote-photos/science-gains-from-it-the-pendulum-more-than-one-can-expect-with-its-huge-dime.jpg)
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For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy. Brandon Sanderson
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The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things. Brian Tracy
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I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. Jamie Farr
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The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. Branch Rickey
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If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do. Billy Corgan
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The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside. Ludwig von Mises
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I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that. Ashley Scott
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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. Doris Lessing
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Thanks to an early start, we are in good position - and we have to make sure we maintain it, ... At the top end of the market, they appreciate especially things that are not made in China. And we are 100 percent made in Italy. Salvatore Ferragamo
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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
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When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some. Brownie McGhee
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