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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Science, Keep, Conscience

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Happy, Together, Old

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel

Life, Hope, Human

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, Wine, Motion

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Light, Lovely

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Him, Same

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Jimmy Buffett

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

Work, God, Talent

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Play, Difference, Hand

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
Ernest Holmes

God, Others, Accept

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Promises

Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

Courage, Coward, Despair

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller

Faith, Fight, Battle

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

Time, Odd, Spirits

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Moses Hadas

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Sex, Nothing

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

Important, Everything, Fashion

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Passion, Kiss, Affection

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

Maybe, Distance, Nostalgia

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Frank Crane

Manhood, Dread, Womanhood

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Death, Story, Meaning

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka

God, Nuts, Crack

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman

Freedom, Democracy, Measure

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne

Mind, Edge, Pains

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper

Life, Variety, Spice

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Denzel Washington

God, Mother, Another

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

True, Himself, Claims

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy, Sometimes, Dangerous

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