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Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:

    When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,
    She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.
    An abstemious man would reel at her look,
    As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.
    William Plomer (1903–1973)

    Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
    Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)

    When the apple is ripe it will fall.
    —Irish proverb.

    An English equivalent to this might be, “To everything there is a season.”

    An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
    José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)