Short quotations about, neither - Page 2

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Thoughts give birth to a creative f…

17 Jan , 2012  

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to […]

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Henri Poincare

Thus, be it understood, to demonstr…

19 Dec , 2011  

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means….[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out […]

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To do two things at once is to do n…

13 Oct , 2011  

To do two things at once is to do neither. Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

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To do two things at once is to do n…

13 Oct , 2011  

To do two things at once is to do neither. Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinen…

24 Mar , 2011  

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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Chateaubriand

What importance can we attach to th…

15 Feb , 2011  

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that […]

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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

When neither their property nor the…

15 Feb , 2011  

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince , Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 – 1527)

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Whenever a separation is made betwe…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Great short quote and quotation by: Edmund Burke , Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

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Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886

Where justice is denied, where pove…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Great short quote and quotation by: Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886 , US abolitionist (1817 […]

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Daphne du Maurier

Writers should be read, but neither…

27 Apr , 2010  

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Great short quote and quotation by: Daphne du Maurier , British novelist (1907 – 1989)

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