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• But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Science, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

  William James

  Science, Sight, Mind

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• Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

  John Owen

  Self, Soul, Sin

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

  John Owen

  Sin, Trouble

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• As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

  Paul Dirac

  Nature, Science, Interesting

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• Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that intelligence, as well as less controversial traits of temperament, are in large part hereditary.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Race, Self

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• To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.

  George MacDonald

  Believe, Men, Humanity

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1567, Delphi Classics

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• Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

  Byron White

  School, Order, Maintaining

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• I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Artist, Hunting

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
  created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
  inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
  make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
  incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
  liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
  ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
  the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
  strangers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Men, Rights

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals. And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Self

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• Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

  Brandon Mull

  Differences, Heaven, Matter

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• It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheism, Sun, There Is No God

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• It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

  Ernest Renan

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Ernest Renan (2015). “The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan”, 谷月社

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• It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

  Frances Wright

  Christian, Party, Years

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• I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

  Drake

  Writing, Two, Gone

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2016.

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• His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.

  Yukio Mishima

  Eye, Glitter, Emotion

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Runaway Horses”, Vintage

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• It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.

  Paul Foster Case

  Teaching, Roots, Light

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• As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Attitude, Whales, Humanity

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• Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.

  Quintilian

  Education, Children, Stupid

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• There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

  Ouida

  Beauty, Self, Half

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• I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Dream, Reality, Law

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Plot, Should

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

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• Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Self, Pockets, May

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Men, Sky

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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