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• Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

  Plautus

  Learning, Life Is, Whole

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• Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

  George Berkeley

  Knavery, Knaves

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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• What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. So which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?

  Steven Novella

  Thinking, Systematic, Way

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• A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Thorough Knowledge, Elements, Half

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• Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

  Louis Nizer

  Expression, Preparation, Trials

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• Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

  Dieter Rams

  Design Process, Care, Lasts

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• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfish, War, Heart

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Cleansing, Individual

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.281, Tara Publishing

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• Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Spiritual, Cancer, Successful

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• A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Thorough Understanding, Typical, Tactics

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Self, Great Things

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• Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.

  Ira Remsen

  Taken, Science, Order

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• The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Truth, Practice, Civilization

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness.
  The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

  Michael Chabon

  Long, Broken, Pieces

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• The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Kings, Book, Judging

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

  Ralph Marston

  Teacher, Adversity, Personalized

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• Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Enemy, Politics

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Cost

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Motivation, Lying, Mean

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

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• Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.

  Jacques Monod

  Unique, Roots, Trying

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• Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Distance, Desire, Might

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• There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

  Agnes Repplier

  World, Enjoyable

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

  John Lennon

  Joy, Mind, Sorrow

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Law, Differences, Ease

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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