Cargill Gilston Knott famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.
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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
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The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.
-- Cargill Gilston Knott
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To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
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In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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