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A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies — and this is the accepted view of its origin — it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.
nikola tesla— "Experiments With Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency, and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination" (20 May 1891)
"My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity."
alphonse de lamartine— On Les confidences
It wassaid of Metternichthat hewasso conservativethat had he been present at the Creation, he would have begged God to have retained Chaos.
— 1968 Note in his Dictionary of Quotations.
Why then, if these books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book, that is thus early impressed, lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
fisher ames— Published in Palladium (January 1801), reported in Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames (1809), p. 134-35.
There was one young man who sat regularly in a spectator's seat about whom it was later testified that not one thread of his under or outer garments had retained its original color, so drenched were they by his own blood after a visit to Heinrich Baab in 1942.
heinrich baab— Kay Boyle in The Smoking Mountain (1951)
There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.
karen blixen— Letter to her sister Elle (1923); later published in Letters from Africa: 1914-1931 (1981) edited by Frans Lasson, translated by Anne Born.
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.
shunroku hata— Quoted in "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939" - by Alvin D. Coox - Page 1184 - 1990
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.
johannes kepler— As quoted by Bryant, ibid.
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.
sergei prokofiev— Page 46; from the Autobiography.
The death of John Pennington had left his widow in circumstances which were more straitened than ever, and the Park had receded even from her notepaper, where it had long been retained as a courtesy title on the principle that addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
saki— "Cross Currents"
The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch. XIII The Beginning and the End, 3. The Supreme Moment and After
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.
pieter willem botha— As quoted in Dictionary of South African Quotations, Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books 1994, p11.
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
warren farrell— p. xxii. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 330
Our opinion here is that that place has been so deeply concerned in smuggling, that if it wants it is because it has illegally sent away what it ought to have retained for its own consumption.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Lieutenant Governor Levi Lincoln of Massachusetts (November 13, 1808), concerning a petition from the island of Nantucket for food during the American embargo.
Progress , far from consisting in change , depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
george santayana— This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants:Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists : that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea . Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
george santayana— pp. 48-49 (Vol. V, Reason in Science)
The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
harlan f. stone— United States v. Darby Lumber Company, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941).
When everything on the ship was being turned upside down, the music remained the same. In the midst of mind-jarring abnormality, it was the one thing that retained its familiarity.
steve turner— p. 194 (The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836), Chapter 1.
He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.
james thomson— James Thomson, Castle of Indolence (1748), Canto I, Stanza 20.
The Khasis of Shillong city have retained even today many important element of their tradition .
— Gita Pyal, in "Society, Politics, and Development in North East India: Essays in Memory of Dr. Basudeb Datta Ray", p.125
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies and this is the accepted view of its origin it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.
— Nikola Tesla (1891) "Experiments With Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency, and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination" (20 May 1891)
The Molossians were the strongest and, decisive for Macedonia, most easterly of the three most important Epirote tribes, which, like Macedonia but unlike the Thesprotians and the Chaonians, still retained their monarchy. They were Greeks, spoke a similar dialect to that of Macedonia, suffered just as much from the depredations of the Illyrians and were in principle the natural partners of the Macedonian king who wished to tackle the Illyrian problem at its roots.
— Malcolm Errington, "A History of Macedonia", University of California Press, February 1993
There was one young man who sat regularly in a spectator's seat about whom it was later testified that not one thread of his under or outer garments had retained its original color, so drenched were they by his own blood after a visit to Heinrich Baab in 1942.
— Kay Boyle in The Smoking Mountain (1951)
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea . Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
— George Santayana, in The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.
george henry lewes— George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
— Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.
— Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.
— Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.
— Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
george santayana— George Santayana, The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1967), pp. 48-49. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97.
