#discovers

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. ↗

— Sophocles

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Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates. ↗

— John Opie

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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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