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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
by Carl Van Vechten (Writer, American , born in 1880) keywords: any, ask, five-year-old, kitten, more, ordinary, questions, than , will Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
by Arthur E. Waitekeywords: aptitude, business, canons, either, evidence, faculty, harmony, knowledge, life, mystic, now, ordinary, own, seldom, sphere, things, very , works Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him.
by William Waller (Soldier, English , born in 1597) keywords: against, been, before, could, directed, equally, german, had, him, land, late, now, ordinary, other, realized, too, violence , which But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
by Adam Weishaupt (Clergyman, German , born in 1748) keywords: alas, because, deficient, domination, dose, inefficient, leave, ordinary, political, prejudices, religious, sadly, sermon, sleepy, under , us Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: cannot, infinitely, ordinary, precious, real, riches, soul, stolen, taken, things , your I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.
by Prince William (Royalty, British , born in 1982) keywords: feels, fun, getting, go, going, just, married, only, ordinary, sometimes, student, though, university , want We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
by Shirley Williams (Politician, British , born in 1930) keywords: back, chance, changed, character, convinced, exceptional, far, line, make, now, ordinary, out, party, really, say, something, take, think, us, very, will , winning At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
by William John Wills (Scientist, English , born in 1834) keywords: any, arts, confined, deep, differently, dispositions, education, fine, girls, having, knowledge, manners, more, need, ordinary, rate, scientific, situated, study, their, things , world Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: church, earth, fables, miracles, more, nobody, observes, obvious, ordinary, sees, square, than , yard Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
by Jeanette Winterson (Novelist, British , born in 1959) keywords: access, accomplish, experience, hidden, lot, ordinary, places, professionalism , years As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: basic, beyond, blocks, building, equipment, everyday, experience, explore, forces, gravity, life, lots, ordinary, our, perhaps, physics, strong, take , weak I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: better, black, field, holes, insights, lead, new, ordinary, quantum, should, states, theories, theory, thought, understand, us , wrong The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: been, beyond, dimensions, extra, four, haven, interpreted, observed, ordinary, plus, small, spatial, sufficiently, theory, three, time , yet There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
by Boris Yeltsin (Statesman, Russian , born in 1931) keywords: around, discussed, first, friends, generally, life, many, numerous, ordinary, politician, profession, rarely, ruin, second, suffers, suppose, temptations, third, those , top I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
by Philip Zimbardo (Psychologist, American , born in 1933) keywords: act, alien, been, dumb, evil, good, how, interested, irrational, natures, ordinary, primarily, seem, smart, sometimes, their, things, unusual , why When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
by Zhang Ziyi (Actor, Chinese , born in 1979) keywords: begin, better, close, discover, each, eager, even, first, friendship, get, her, him, kind, know, meet, only, ordinary, other, suddenly, them, two, understand , very There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: any, apply, been, beyond, caught, circumstances, control, could, events, family, his, leone, limited, man, midst, most, number, ordinary, places, political, save, sierra, something, story, terrible, their, theme, trying, universal, up , where