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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

– H.L. Mencken

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

– Samuel Johnson

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

– Vincent Van Gogh

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

– Henry Louis Mencken

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

– Louis Pasteur

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

– Vincent van Gogh

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

– Georges Clemenceau

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

– Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

– Francis Bacon

A Soulution to Rubik's Cube is not a series of individual good guesses, each surmounting move has twelve to one odds against success. It is a series of perplexed movements or algorithms that form a coherent method of returning back to it's original (correct) state.

– Tom Zegan

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

– George Orwell

Everybody's life is already planned out for them. It has been that way since the day they were born. Although they may think they can change or control life, it's nothing but a series of events waiting to happen.  

– Caitlin Kell

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

– Howard Schultz

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

– Jerry Coleman

I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.

– Sidney Madwed

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.

– Lisa Moriyama

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

– Frederick Douglas

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

– Paul Feyerabend

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

– Henry Ford

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

– Charles Feidelson, Jr.

Life is a series of tales woven with doubt in order to test your faith . . not in some god or religion . . but in your self.

– Brandon A. Trean

Life.....is a series of dogs.

– George Carlin

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

– Sue Halpern

The solution of a Rubik's Cube is not a series of individual good guesses, each surmounting move has twelve to one odds against success. It is a series of perplexed movements or algorithms that form a coherent method of returning back to it's original (correct) state.

– Tom Zegan

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