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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sor...

William Gilbert

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Frankenstein

When will world leaders learn that you can never obtain peace by using war and aggression. They must find other avenues that will lead humanity to peace.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

The Art of War

❤Love is the missing factor in our world today. Without it...humanity can never obtain true peace✌

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Robert Barclay

Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.

The Real Sherlock Holmes: The mysterious methods and curious history of a true mental specialist

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and pe...

Siddhartha

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Sonnets from the Portuguese

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Sixty Stories

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

Principles of Electrodynamics

Statements that will hold good for all time are difficult to obtain in archaeology. The most that can be done at any one time is to report on the current state of knowledge.

Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

O. Henry

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

Peter Singer

... no person can be his own saviour ... An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to the sinner.

R.K. Harrison

The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the halting of biologically toxic corporate government policies. The overloading of the electromagnetic ...

Steven Magee

Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.

Teresa of Ávila

Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

Thomas S. Monson