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61 quotesIn scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Science and Scientists
Thomas H. Huxley
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Majority
Henrik Ibsen
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We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
Regret
Thomas Jefferson
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Luck
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Modesty
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Courage
Robert F. Kennedy
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Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Television
Kovacs
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Friends and Friendship
Jean De La Fontaine
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Journalism and Journalists
Charles Lamb
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Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
Faults
Byron J. Langenfield
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
Work
Abraham Lincoln
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A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
Servants
Martin Luther
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Christians are rare people on earth.
Christians and Christianity
Martin Luther
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Books - Reading
Harriet Martineau
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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Common Sense
George Meredith
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Pollution
Ralph Nader
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Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
Madness
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Age and Aging
R. Palmer
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Love
Charles Peguy
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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Friends and Friendship
William E. Rothschild
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Valor is common but great souls are rare.
Valor
Bernard Joseph Saurin
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Peace
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
Villains
George Bernard Shaw
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Happiness
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun