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For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal, vziz.> the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal, viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original... Maimonides
For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood—(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their... Lewis Carroll
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished. Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry. Friedrich Nietzsche
But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did. Ayn Rand
Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed. Thomas Hardy
Daniel Kahneman quote: "A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to..."
A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise. Daniel Kahneman
Ray Bradbury quote: "We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no..."
We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. Ray Bradbury
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me. Mother Teresa
It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into. Fyodor Dostoevsky
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation. Shelby Foote
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness. Alice Hoffman
William Randolph Hearst quote: "It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. ..."
It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. William Randolph Hearst
William Wordsworth quote: "A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise..."
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. William Wordsworth

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