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• Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Fly Away, Teach

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• Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Ideas, Progress

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• You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Book, Science

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Knowledge, Experience, Action

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

  Caleb Carr

  Friendship, Jobs, True Friend

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Wit

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Education, School, Prejudice

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• Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mean, Warfare, Band

  1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

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• Improvisation is a compositional method.

  Evan Parker

  Improvisation

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• I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

  Paul Cezanne

  Primitive

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Patterns, Recognition

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.115, Henry Holt and Company

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• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Poison, Use, Information

  "The Danger of American Fascism," in "The New York Times", (April 9, 1944); Quoted in "Democracy Reborn", New York, (p. 259), 1944.

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• Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

  Henry M. Morris

  Past, Religion, Scientific Method

  Dr. Henry M. Morris (1974). “Scientific Creationism”, p.5, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

  Max Born

  Believe, Two, Scientific Method

  1951 Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance.

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• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  Kary Mullis

  Creativity, Creative, Desire

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• What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

  Edward Tufte

  Truth, Mean, Presentation

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• The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

  Henry Mayhew

  Acquiring Knowledge

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

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• Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

  Dougray Scott

  Acting, Labels, Method Acting

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

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• I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

  Charley Pride

  Guitar, Tunes, Ears

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• The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

  Ninette de Valois

  Years, Way, Study

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• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

  Paul de Man

  Criticism, Would Be, Movement

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge

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• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Energy, Source, Antimatter

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• Methods are the masters of masters.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Masters

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