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• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Life, Passion, Joy

  The Week, October 16, 1958.

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• The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Mean, Secret

  Albert Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities (1998). “The Primeval Forest”, p.128, JHU Press

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• In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creating, Brain, Evolution

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• To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Views, Criticism

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2011). “The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change”, p.273, University of Chicago Press

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• The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Science, Names, Nomenclature

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• I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Dog, Art

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• The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

  John Keegan

  Men, Leader, Warfare

  John Keegan (1987). “The Mask of Command”, Random House (UK)

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• I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

  Richard Baxter

  Mean, Election, No Excuses

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.315

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• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

  Joseph Hall

  Order, Calling, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Containing forty-three sermons”, p.594

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• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

  Alexander Pope

  Names, Church, Fame

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.261

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• Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to "be" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Teacher, Jesus, Adventure

  "Apostles Proclaim Christ, Not an Idea, Says Pope". zenit.org. March 22, 2006.

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• Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds of material. They maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them. They crown these images, and set them up along with the images of the philosophers of the world, such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle, and the rest. They have also other modes of honoring these images just like the Gentiles.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Religious, Jesus, Plato

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• The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

  Franklin Edgerton

  Wisdom, Science, Intelligence

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• There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Men, Boredom, Quality

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• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Religious, Exercise, People

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Self Harm, Artist

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• To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Impossible, Talent

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• Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

  Winston Churchill

  Destiny, Free Will, Conclusion

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Talking, Wonder

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• There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Hurt, Blood, Mind

  Geoff Nicholson (1998). “Bleeding London”, p.62, The Overlook Press

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• The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Men, Choices

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• Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Humility, Humble, Genuine

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• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Spiritual, Fall

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• Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.

  Annie Oakley

  Eye, Gun, Practice

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• On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

  Niccolo Paganini

  Friendship, Writing, Venice

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