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science awful situation
Kurt Vonnegut Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
science sea space
Kurt Vonnegut Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.
science accounts commandments
Bertolt Brecht Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
science research excuse
Benjamin Jowett Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
science giving suffering
Bertrand Russell A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
science triumph modern
Bertrand Russell One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
science men years
Bertrand Russell You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.
science world triumph
Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
law knowing shy
Charles Dickens Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
lessons shapes pay
Al Jourgensen Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
lessons matter facts
Chris Colfer No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.
lessons used teach
Eartha Kitt I used to teach dance lessons.
lessons rewards hell
Bear Grylls The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
lessons-to-be-learned alive process
Denis Waitley Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
lessons management investment
Charlie Munger A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
lessons hard-lessons hard
Charlie Munger The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
lessons taking
Lindsay Lohan When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
lessons firsts given
Eliza Haywood To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.