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• Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Imagination, Mind, Shadow

  Eric Temple Bell (1930). “Debunking Science”

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• Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)

  Marisha Pessl

  Men, Birds Chirping, People

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• A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Heart, Remembrance

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• Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Rights, Views

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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• Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Humility, Eye

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders...and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hard Work, Law, Play

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• Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

  Octave Chanute

  Distance, Airplane, Successful

  Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”

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• When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."

  Angel Abrea

  Life, Faith, Strong

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• Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Knowing, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.536, Wildside Press LLC

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• This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist, no harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mirrors, Discovery

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• Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Twilight, Science, Shadow

  George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy”, p.84

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• History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Law, History, May

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• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

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• I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does.... There is something about believing in God, that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you. I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Faith, Children, Believe

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• Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Demand, Confrontation, Carrie

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Memories, Moving, Night

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• It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

  B. F. Skinner

  Effort, Mind, Behaviour

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• If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” “What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?” “Forbidden? But my father’s love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?” “Or a married vampire.” “Well, nevertheless,” Will said, with a grin. “One should fight on. Love conquers all.” Will and Jem

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Decision, Approval

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.562, Penguin

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• Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

  Georgette Heyer

  Eye, Would Be, Use

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• I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Journey

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• Miss Temminnick, you are in receipt of the highest marks we have ever given in a six-month review. Your mind seems designed for espionage. Nevertheless, you veer away from perfect in matters of etiquette. Do not let these marks go to your head; there are many girls at this school who are better than you. Our biggest concern is what you get up to when we are not watching. Because, if nothing else, this test has told us you are probably spying on us, as well as everyone around you.

  Gail Carriger

  Girl, School, Perfect

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• No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Time, Men, Firsts

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Night, People

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 33: Sermons 1938-2000”, p.704, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

  Lucretius

  Believe, Science, Hands

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