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• When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Men, Past

  Karl Pearson (1892). “The Grammar of Science”

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• No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Military, Phases Of Life, Duty

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

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• Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Death, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Excellence, Mediocrity, Strive

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

  Lucy Stone

  Summer, Trying, Phases Of Life

  Lucy Stone, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Carol Lasser, Marlene Merrill (1987). “Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93”, p.147, University of Illinois Press

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• You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Answers, Might

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• In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Optimistic, Ideas

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others. The entrepreneur, like the pioneer, pushes boundaries in search of what's new, what's next. Sometimes, he brings the whole society with him, rushing forward together into a next phase of our communal human life.

  Sam Wyly

  Dream, Rushing, Goal

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• I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Thinking, Adolescence

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• Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Careers, Muse

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• So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

  Taylor Swift

  School, Weekend, Hair

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• Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

  Gayle Forman

  Wall, Tired, Effort

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• I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feet, Watches, Tonight

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Risk, Cost

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

  Stephen King

  Drinking, Moral Fiber, People

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.234, Anchor

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• If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Reading, Fifty

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• Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Selfish, Men, Church

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.265, Applewood Books

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• I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him.

  Portia de Rossi

  Confused, Gay, Expression

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Girl, Memories, Phrases

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• A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Butterfly, Acceptance, Keep The Faith

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

  Eoin Colfer

  Opal, Chaos, Plans

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.785, Penguin UK

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• You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Entering, Firsts

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