Premature Quotes - Page 4

• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Education, School, Age

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Confusion, Confusing

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the British chemists; and upon the whole, I think the new nomenclature will be rejected, after doing more harm than good. There are some good publications in it, which must be translated into the ordinary chemical language before they will be useful.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Science, Thinking

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• Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Science, Scientist

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

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• Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

  George Boole

  Science, Growth, Culture

  George Boole (1872). “A Treatise on Differential Equations”, p.6

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• Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

  John Quinton

  Mind, Development, Body

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• To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

  Paul Driessen

  Block, People, Energy

  Paul Driessen (2003). “Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death”, Merril Press

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• There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Energy, Cost

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.

  Julie Burchill

  Morning, Husband, Phones

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• Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation.

  Tom Sims

  Girl, Sex, Men

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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• Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

  Peter Drucker

  Perception, Fragility, Dangerous

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.130, Routledge

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• When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

  George Iles

  Education, Truth, Science

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Gone, World, Prevention

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• Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

  Jane Chen

  Baby, Years, Risk

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• There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, May, Today

  "The 'Threat' Of Creationism" by Isaac Asimov, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fall, Wake Up, Kind

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, People, Movement

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• According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

  Federico Fellini

  Doctors, Light, Suffering

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• The difference between EAZY E the artist and Eric Wright the human being, was two separate worlds apart. Behind closed doors, Eazy-E was a real generous giver, A true philanthropist.In 1991, I remember when Eazy-E drove out to Fontana California to drop off $20,000 cash because my twin boys were having hernia problems & and slight medical issues because of being born premature. He stopped his meeting & drove to give me the cash for my twins operations.

  Kokane

  Real, Boys, Artist

  Source: www.dubcnn.com

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• Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Truth, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

  Saint Basil

  Age, Ruins, Reason

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• The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Running, Reality, Widows

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• If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

  Adrian Rogers

  Junk, World, Ifs

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