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«We have to do the best we can with the language and concepts we inherit and not worry about obtaining a truth that will satisfy everyone, everywhere, and for all time»
«The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away?.- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, 1837»
«The plants whose father was the sky, whose mother the earth, Whose root the (heavenly) ocean--may those divine herbs aid thee in obtaining a son!»
«We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
connections, generalities, generality, obtaining, penetrated, regularities, rules of order
«The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Disappointment,
Joy
| Keywords:
completion, expecting, obtaining
«Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.»