#ere

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#come #discoverer #great #great idea #great ideas

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#considered #dork #i #loved #me

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men. ↗

— Frank Press

#great men #gutenberg #men #richter #very

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#between #chance #difference #god #operations

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#circumstances #determine #go #merely #present

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#astonishing #continue #epic #hears #his

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#dangers #russian #warned #were #west

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. ↗

— John Woolman

#back #carefully #concern #discipline #enlargement

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. ↗

— Peter Wright

#i #interesting #look #most #old