#discover

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

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We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. ↗

— Theresa May

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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

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Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. ↗

— Charles Eames

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I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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