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Image of William Whewell
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.
- William Whewell
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Image of Anna Wintour
I've never taken a selfie and I don't plan to start now.
- Anna Wintour
Collection: Taken
Image of Daniel Suarez
But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.
- Daniel Suarez
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Image of Walter Reuther
There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.
- Walter Reuther
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Image of Robin Morgan
Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.
- Robin Morgan
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Image of Jock Sturges
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
- Jock Sturges
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Image of Michelle Williams
There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.
- Michelle Williams
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Image of Richie Sambora
Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
- Richie Sambora
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Image of Alan Bennett
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
- Alan Bennett
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Image of Erving Goffman
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.
- Erving Goffman
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Image of Erving Goffman
So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
- Erving Goffman
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Image of Thomas Paine
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
- Thomas Paine
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Image of Beverley Nichols
I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.
- Beverley Nichols
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Image of Frances Hardinge
Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.
- Frances Hardinge
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Image of Tom Krause
Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.
- Tom Krause
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Image of Erwin W. Lutzer
Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.
- Erwin W. Lutzer
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Image of Tracie Peterson
Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.
- Tracie Peterson
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Image of William Howard Taft
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
- William Howard Taft
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Image of Sharon Kay Penman
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
- Sharon Kay Penman
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Image of Garth Nix
If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?
- Garth Nix
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Image of Gary Vaynerchuk
No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
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Image of Elizabeth von Arnim
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.
- Elizabeth von Arnim
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Image of Hendrik Hertzberg
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.
- Hendrik Hertzberg
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Image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Image of Leonard Mlodinow
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.
- Leonard Mlodinow
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Image of Lynne Truss
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.
- Lynne Truss
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Image of Patricia Briggs
That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.
- Patricia Briggs
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Image of Faith Hunter
Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!
- Faith Hunter
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Image of John Stossel
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.
- John Stossel
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Image of Caprice Crane
People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.
- Caprice Crane
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Image of Thrity Umrigar
Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.
- Thrity Umrigar
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Image of Andrea Camilleri
Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a fascinating place, quite unlike any other.
- Andrea Camilleri
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Image of William Blackstone
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
- William Blackstone
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Image of Chris Wooding
Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
- Chris Wooding
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Image of Jonathan Evison
Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.
- Jonathan Evison
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Image of Janette Oke
When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
- Janette Oke
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Image of Richard Schickel
Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.
- Richard Schickel
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Image of Huey Newton
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.
- Huey Newton
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Image of Linus Torvalds
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
- Linus Torvalds
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Image of Lucy Christopher
It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.
- Lucy Christopher
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Image of Edith Schaeffer
There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.
- Edith Schaeffer
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Image of George Wald
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
- George Wald
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Image of David Markson
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.
- David Markson
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Image of Mark Batterson
Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.
- Mark Batterson
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Image of Freya North
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.
- Freya North
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Image of John Wyndham
So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another ... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists. 'We love one another,' I said.
- John Wyndham
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Image of P. G. Wodehouse
Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
- P. G. Wodehouse
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Image of Potter Stewart
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
- Potter Stewart
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Image of Ralph Washington Sockman
There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.
- Ralph Washington Sockman
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