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1342 British Quotes

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Master Difficulty Opportunity Won
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“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
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“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

Endure Comfort Ease Time
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Slaves Words Slip Masters
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

Advance Thinking Worrying Planning
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“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

Daring Excel Crime Great
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Stripped Curse Plenty Bare
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

World Before Halfway Around
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“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Sentence Something Preposition Which
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Come Half World Good
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Happy Circumstances Combination
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Happiness God Peace Us
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Give Make What Life
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear Opinion Once Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear Dead Life Love
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Report Accurate Understand Hear
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted

Hang Mark Long Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Symptom Approach Nervous Belief
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Catch Easy Fall Love
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Burn Life Bridge Cross
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Knowledge Power Astonishing Little
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Dangerous Failure Recognize Error
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Worth Self-knowledge Know Mind
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It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

Brains Essential Understand Vast
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Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom Wolves Meant Dealth
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

Amino Acid Mutation Methods
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
Aspect Molecules Life Sketchy
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Altering a gene in the gene line to produce improved offspring is likely to be very difficult because of the danger of unwanted side effects. It would also raise obvious ethical problems.

Gene Offspring Effect Obvious
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Biologists Constantly Designed Evolved
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Chance Novelty Source Only
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Motivated Expressed Vitalism Refute
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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Only time and money stand between us and knowing the composition of every gene in the human genome.
Gene Composition Human Genome
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Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Protein Biology Gene Probability
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The layman is delighted to learn that after all, in spite of science being so impossibly difficult to understand, Scientists Are Human!

Layman Scientist Human Science
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