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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Facts

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Music, Start

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Great, Same

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Life, Love, Happiness

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, War, Lies

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
Coco Chanel

Time, Women, Alone

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Forgetting, Memory

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

Through, Living, Sometimes

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo

Love, Loved, Grander

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Expect, Honestly

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Design, America, Earth

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Everything, Easy, Whatever

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

Men, Care, Made

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

Through, Sometimes, Alive

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Trust, Patience, Teacher

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson

Down, Staircase

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will

True, Game, Baseball

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg

Two, Before, Since

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Waiting, Down, Rose

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Idea, Born, Ideas

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Life, Human, Creative

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers

Heart, Thoughts

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
Quentin Tarantino

Life, Time, Movies

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Challenge, Army, Critics

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Beautiful, Strong, Woman

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton

Life, Happiness, Through

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
Rita Rudner

Start, Second, Position

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Augustus Hare

Saying, Ambitious

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Vivien Leigh

School, Play, Special

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Lady Gaga

Year, Worth, Expensive

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