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Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.
josef pieper— pp. 106–107
caturadhikam ?atama??agu?am dv??a??istath? sahasr???m ayutadvayavi?kambhasy?sanno v?ttapari??ha?. Translates to: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached. Thus according to the rule ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416, which is accurate to five significant figures.
— In: Arijit Roy The Enigma of Creation and Destruction, Author House, 28 October 2011, p.27
— The irrationality of pi was proved by Lambert in Europe in the year 1761.
Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.
Robert Byron— 1937 The Road to Oxiana.
Ever since the Republican landslide on Nov 8, it's been getting dark outside a little earlier every day.You notice that?
— 1994 In the NewYork Times,17 Dec.
The most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.
Marjory Fleming— 1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).
She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.
— 1979 On his wife and fellow editor Katharine S White. Onward and Upward in the Garden.
Anyway, Big Brother 7: that was that. Big Brother 8 is scheduled to take place in the glowing centre of an irradiated war-torn wasteland formerly known as Earth. See you there.
charlie brooker— The Guardian, 12 August 2006 [24]
We've got 8 points from 4 games. That's automatic promotion form.
phil brown— 15-Dec-2005, Radio Derby
— An optimistic extrapolation.
The band? It's over. Reunited because of the good cause (Live 8), to get over the bad relationship, and not to have regrets.
david gilmour— Ruling out the possibility of a permanent reunion of Pink Floyd in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (February 2006)
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
chris hedges— What Every Person Should Know About War
On this tragic day, the death of Adolf Hitler was reported - Admiral Dönitz takes over as his nominated successor. Reach Flensburg about 8. Have to drink wine for breakfast — as nothing else is available.
william joyce— Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 301. UK National Archives KV 2/250/2, p. 55.
— Diary entry, 1 May 1945.
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.
albert pujols— When asked about how he learned to play baseball.[5]
Our producer Nick thinks it's a dance record, and who are we to disagree? Don't be alarmed though, we won't be donning face masks and Gore-Tex like Altern 8, or dancing like electric monkeys. Apart from Lukas (Wooller, keyboards).
paul smith— NME
Yet if heretics be altogether uprooted by death, this is not contrary to Our Lord's command [in Matthew 13:30], which is to be understood as referring to the case when the cockle [weeds] cannot be plucked up without plucking up the wheat, as we explained above (10, 8, ad 1), when treating of unbelievers in general.
thomas aquinas— II-II, q. 11, art. 3, ad. 3
Already you're on Page 8.
gwendolyn brooks— "Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg"
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 17 March 1833.
No pleasure is in itself evil , but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves. (8)
epicurus— Variant translation: No pleasure is itself a bad thing, but the things that produce some kinds of pleasure, bring along with them unpleasantness that is much greater than the pleasure itself.
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
gloria estefan— To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale" at book signing at Macy's in New York City (Novemeber 21, 2006
The Gorbachev Foundation TIME 100:;: Mikhail Gorbachev Green Cross International official site Profile at the Nobel Prize site MikhailGorbachev.org "Out in the Cold" interview in The Guardian (8 March 2005) CNN Cold War Profile: Mikhail Gorbachev (1998)
mikhail gorbachev— September 1997 interview
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37 ...
Peter Greenaway— Kito counting
Darl said, "So we will make a lot of money with tiny internet ads, like in the back of newspapers, and down at the bottom of web pages and one of those small blocks that says 'powered by Pointserve.' He changed our business model, tiny ads did not work, he left after about 8 months, and we went back to our original business model, and he went to SCO."
darl mcbride— Pointserve Employee
Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir. 8 To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.
vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de— p.172. (Reflections and Maxims (1746))
The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
larry wall— Usenet article <199710221859.LAA24889@wall.org> (1997)
My Brother William was married to Mary Hutchinson…At a little after 8 o'clock I saw them go down the avenue towards the Church. William had parted from me upstairs. [ deleted : I gave him the wedding ring – with how deep a blessing! I took it from my forefinger where I had worn it the whole of the night before – he slipped it again onto my finger and blessed me fervently].
dorothy wordsworth— October 4, 1802
The Srimad Bhagavatam teaches nine primary forms of bhakti , as explained by Prahlada as:(1) ?rava?a ("listening" to the scriptural stories of K???a and his companions), (2) k?rtana ("praising," usually refers to ecstatic group singing), (3) smara?a ("remembering" or fixing the mind on Vi??u), (4) p?da-sevana (rendering service), (5) arcana (worshiping an image), (6) vandana (paying homage), (7) d?sya (servitude), (8) s?khya (friendship), and (9) ?tma-nivedana (complete surrender of the self ).
— Bhagavata Purana (from Bhagavata Purana, 7.5.23-24) quoted in Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of R?g?nug? Bhakti S?dhana, p.133
It is even because the 2 times table it goes 0, 2, 4, 6, 8.
— Carly, Year 5, UK
Mike and Donna Henderson, onetime Scientologists from Clearwater, were victims of this culture. OT 7 and OT 8 respectively, they were nearly bankrupted by their involvement with the church. Today they are two of a growing number of ex-Scientologists who predict that in these dark economic times, Scientology's "unvarnished demand for money", as Mike puts it, may lead to its demise.
— Janet Reitman (2011). Inside Scientology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 184, 349. ISBN 0618883029.
3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 14:06 (UTC) 2 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC) 2 Jeff Q:;(talk) 10:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC) 2 InvisibleSun 08:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC) 2 Zarbon 05:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC) 1 //Gbern3 ( talk ) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC) This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. - Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
— If we do go for this quote, we really should include the title of the work (which I've added, thanks to InvisibleSun), lest we encourage folks to use it without irony. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Nii Taka Yama Nobore 1208. (Execute the Hawaii operation on December 8 [Japanese time]).
— Message sent by Japanese Imperial Navy Headquarters to the carrier fleet approaching Pearl Harbor (2 December 1941).[ ]
