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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Home, Science, Past

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Responsibility, Men, Overcoming

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• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  Edgar Cayce

  Opportunity, Use It Or Lose It, Use

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• Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Vegetables, Ifs And

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• The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Meaningful, Battle, Individual

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• There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Christ, Creation

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.155

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• Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Doe, Chance

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

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• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.1

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• When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

  Andrew Jackson

  Death, Strong, Sick

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• Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Party, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.346

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• And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

  Ed Bradley

  Luck, Found, Harder

  Interview with John Sears, RTNDA Communicator (RTNDA - Radio Television Digital News Association), Volume 54, August 2000.

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• Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

  Horace

  Yield, Sloth, Laziness

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Life, Change, Mistake

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• Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

  Thomas Huxley

  God, Christian, Nature

  Letter to Charles Kingsley, mathcs.clarku.edu. September 23, 1860.

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• Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, Maturity, Doubt

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Science, Law

  "What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches".

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• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Science

  Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

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• There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.

  Seth Shostak

  Life, Dirty, Home

  "Do Aliens Exist in the Milky Way". PBS, September 12, 2014.

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• It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.

  Charles Darwin

  Success, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.440, Broadview Press

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• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Discovery, Roots

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• Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

  Louis Pasteur

  Moving, Memorable, Science

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• I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Years, Biographies, Personal History

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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• "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Responsibility, Men

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