Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
-- Maria Mitchell...
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
-- Maria Mitchell...
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
-- James Baldwi...
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
-- James Baldwi...
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. -- James Baldwi
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwi...
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
-- James Baldwi...
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. -- Stanley Baldwi
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. -- Stanley Baldwi

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