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

    Oh sharp diamond, my mother!
    I could not count the cost
    of all your faces, your moods
    that present that I lost.
    Sweet girl, my deathbed,
    my jewel-fingered lady....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    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.”

    ‘Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures—but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)