#discovered

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

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If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

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It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

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On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. ↗

— John Dyer

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. ↗

— Langston Hughes

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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. ↗

— Betty Grable

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Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

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