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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons." »Colin Greenwood
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"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself." »Pierre Charron
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"Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all." »Sir William Osler
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"Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."" »Mike Kellen
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"It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion." »Mentat Prayer
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"Everything is energy in motion." »Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
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"Sex is emotion in motion." »Mae West
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"If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves." »Roth Gabrielle
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"A motion to adjourn is always in order." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Never mistake motion for action." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Money alone sets all the world in motion." »Publilius Syrus
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"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards." »Charles W. Chesnutt
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"A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion." »Richard Byrd
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't." »Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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"“By taking the time to contemplate where you are and where you want to be, you greatly empower yourself. It's a wonderful opportunity to finally set in motion the changes you want in your life."" »Steve Maraboli
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"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever." »Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." »Kahlil Gibran
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"And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee." »Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
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"On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." »Alfred A. Montapert
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"If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." »Saint Augustine
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"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised." »David Assael
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"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." »William Faulkner
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"study men, not historians." »Harry S Truman
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"Generally we study too much and think too little." »Hary Latham Doherty
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