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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. ↗

— Horace

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THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived. ↗

— Craig Bruce

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A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. ↗

— George Oppen

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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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