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Coalescing around all-night dance parties in Sacramento, California, USA,!!! was spawned in 1996 from the remnants of three bands, California art-punks Yah-Mos, the Popesmashers, and disco terrorists ...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)

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Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Music
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306 words
Coalescing around all-night dance parties in Sacramento, California, USA,!!! was spawned in 1996 from the remnants of three bands, California art-punks Yah-Mos, the Popesmashers, and disco ... More
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New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.)

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Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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History, Social sciences
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)

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2009
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This US pop punk supergroup were formed in 2005 by former Blink-182 members Travis Barker (b. 14 November 1975, Fontana, California, USA; drums) and Mark Hoppus (b. Markus Allan Hoppus, 15 ... More
George Abbott

George Abbott (1887–1995)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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2008
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Actor: What is my motivation? Director George Abbott: Your job. Abbott, a legend in his time—he ... More
Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard (1079–1142)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Dubitando quippe ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus.By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive ... More
Jane Sherwood Ace

Jane Sherwood Ace (1905–74)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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2008
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Time wounds all heels.

This play on the proverbial “Time heals all wounds” was attributed by Goodman Ace to his

Franz Karl Achard

Franz Karl Achard (1753–1821)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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2006
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67 words

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics...would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the

Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson (1893–1971)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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2008
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The rarest gift that God bestows on man is the capacity for decision.

speech, Freedom House, New York City, April

Russell Lincoln Ackoff

Russell Lincoln Ackoff (1919– )   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
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2006
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106 words

Common sense...has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of

Acts of the Legislature of Illinois

Acts of the Legislature of Illinois   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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2008
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The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known henceforth as the American language, and not as the

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834–1902)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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2006
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115 words

It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error

Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams (1744–1818)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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Quotation
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2008
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450 words

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

letter to

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
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2006
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Quotations
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258 words

Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902–84)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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2008
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129 words

Art is the affirmation of life.

Adams attributed this saying to his great predecessor Alfred Stieglitz

in Playboy, May

Roger Adams

Roger Adams (1889–1971)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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80 words

Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk...Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read

Brooks Adams

Brooks Adams (1848–1927)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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2008
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39 words

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore, laws have no

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1672–1719)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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2006
Subject:
Quotations
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202 words

The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Etherial Sky,And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original

Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis Adams (1807–86)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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119 words

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when

Homer Burton Adkins

Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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48 words

Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

Quoted in A.

Clover Adams

Clover Adams (1843–85)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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Quotation
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2008
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Quotations
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112 words

It's not that he “bites off more than he can chaw,”…but he chaws more than he bites off.

Occasionally true

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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35 words

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (1974), 28

In psychoanalysis nothing is

Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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Quotation
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2008
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Quotations
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205 words
These are the saddest of possible words,“Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.” The Chicago Cubs trio of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny ... More
Edgar Douglas Adrian

Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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231 words

We come back then to our records of nervous messages with a reasonable assurance that they do tell us what

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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505 words

From the old-world point of view, the American had no mind; he had an economic thinking-machine which could work only

Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus

Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus (1724–1802)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Reference type:
Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
Length:
133 words

I think that considerable progress can be made in the analysis of the operations of nature by the scholar who

John Adams

John Adams (1735–1826)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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1,322 words

The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the hearts and minds of the people. …

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–73)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
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Quotations
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The epoch of intense cold which preceded the present creation has been only a temporary oscillation of the earth's temperature,

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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201 words

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been

Derek Victor Ager

Derek Victor Ager (1923–92)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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273 words

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the ‘Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record’

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams (1722–1803)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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70 words

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

For Adams's reaction upon hearing

Jane Addams

Jane Addams (1860–1935)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

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Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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50 words

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Addams founded Hull House in

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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42 words

Every Alchymist is a Physician or a Sope-boyler.

The Vanity of the Arts and Sciences (1530), in 1676 edn, 313

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1672–1719)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
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97 words

Do thou, great liberty, inspire our souls,And make our lives in thy possession happyOr our deaths glorious in

Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside (1721–70)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
Length:
66 words

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive rayFrom the great source of mental Day,Free, generous, and refin'd!Descend with all thy

George Ade

George Ade (1866–1944)   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Quotation
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Quotations
Length:
51 words

The cocktail is a pleasant drink;It's mild and harmless—I don't think.When you've had one, you call for two,

Saint Albertus Magnus

Saint Albertus Magnus (c.1200–80)   Reference library

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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Quotation
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Quotations
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762 words

Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for

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