Pure Quotes - Page 36

• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Names, Age

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• The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Independent, Science, Space

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• I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Reading, Eye, Science

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• Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.

  Zhang Xianliang

  Life, Order, People

  Xianliang Zhang, Martha Avery (1991). “Getting used to dying: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

  Glenda Millard

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

  George Harrison

  Heart, Rejection, Looks

  Song: The Day The World Gets 'Round

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• I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

  Peter Facinelli

  Followers, Want, Sells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.

  Nancy Greene

  Maple Syrup, Cents, Ifs

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• Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Christian, Fire, Blood

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Dog, Giving, Betray

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• I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Thinking, Feelings, Enough

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

  Sebastian Junger

  Dirty, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Today, Opinion

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

  Leo Ornstein

  Art, Simple, Ends

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• For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Order, Water, Sugar

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• Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Moving, Work Out, Shining

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• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Flames, Essence

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• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  Yael Naim

  Writing, Looks, Emotion

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• Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

  Steven Rattner

  Running, Winning, Venture

  "A Sneaky Way to Deregulate" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 3, 2013.

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• I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

  Sun Ra

  Views, People, Point Of View

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• The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Eden, Creative

  "The Tanner Lectures on Human Values". Book edited by Sterling McMurrin, 1980.

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• The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, People

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• Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Expression, Ideas, Brain

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