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• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Faith, Hope, Discover

• It’s fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

  Bryan Ferry

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• We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

  Galileo Galilei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discover, Themselves

• To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

  Christopher Alexander

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Capable, Discover

• A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Discover, Concealed, Observation, Dwell, Communicate, Criticism

• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Tags in Discover, Visualize

• What you come to discover is, it isn’t how you get there, it’s that you get there. If that’s what it took to get me where I’m at today, so be it.

  Charlie Sheen

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discover, Investigate, Heaven, School

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  L. Frank Baum

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discover, Through, Imagination

• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Discover, Thing

• Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discover, School, Every, Universe, Principle

• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Discover, Yet, Fulfillment, Labor, Desire

• The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in God, Truth

  Tags in Discover, Toward, Myself

• Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

  Rosalía de Castro

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Discover, Yet, Earth

• It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

  Robert Benchley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Discover, Writing, Talent

• You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

  Jim Rohn

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Really, Discover

• Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

  James Joyce

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Discover, Die

• Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

  Niklaus Emil Wirth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discover, Results

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  Napoleon Hill

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Discover, Project