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Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority o...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of ...

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even C...

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A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, o...

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Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication...

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Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These t...

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...

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Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, stu...

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H. P. LovecraftThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship ...

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...

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If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and prese...

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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extreme...

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceil...

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In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a super...

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Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delig...

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Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...

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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to res...

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Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

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Joseph FourierThe Analytical Theory of Heat

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

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Karl BarthEvangelical Theology: An Introduction

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the m...

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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the ...

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...

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Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t...

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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not b...

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Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowl...

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To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

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When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison o...

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Mark TwainHow Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden a...

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From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek ...

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which g...

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When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes,...

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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful ...

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Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic,...

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

... for you will never, I trust, disconnect what you may yourselves be learning from the hope and pr...

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Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the stu...

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Richard HammingThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

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Robert S. MullikenLife of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it w...

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Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

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Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and...

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...

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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. Th...

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That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer strea...

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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology ...

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I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books wi...

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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, pr...

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It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear frien...

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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sin...

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So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Don't try to distort it by your s...

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By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and enga...

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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to...

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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...

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Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every on...

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what ...

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Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my lat...

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the ...

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