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«Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character»
Author: T. Alan Armstrong
| About:
Character,
Excellence
| Keywords:
Champions, championship, championships, demonstration, demonstrations, preparing, The Championship, The Hours, victorious, weeks
«Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
demonstrations, sense experience
«I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Beginning,
Problems
| Keywords:
demonstrations, discussion, experiments, scriptures, the discussion
«Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| Keywords:
breathing, bring about, demonstration, demonstrations, make peace, missile, missiles, not able, nuclear, nuclear missiles, smiling
«And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: / That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.»
«IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acute, demonstration, demonstrations, Dr, eminent, investigator, investigators, observer, organ, persuaded, pith, professor, prolongation, spinal, spleen, suspend, tailed, theories
«HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abandoned, atmospheric, captains, construction, cyclone, decked, decks, demonstration, demonstrations, fashioned, hurricane, hurricanes, Indies, old fashioned, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, preferred, sea captain, steamboat, steamboats, The Hurricane, the Indies, the West, tornado, tornadoes, upper, uppers, upper deck, usefulness, West Indies
«They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
come into, come into being, demonstration, demonstrations, personalities, revelation
«The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.»
«There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsis»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
demonstration, demonstrations, dread, hater, haters, hypocrisy, relentless, sincere, superstition
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