"the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind"
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"Oh, and just so you know, before we go out to the field we all get into a huddle and yell 'Go Queers!' really loud."
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"There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err."
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"My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection."
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"Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?"
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"Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law."
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"Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?"
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"Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field."
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"If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence."
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"When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty."
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"A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice."
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"There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters."
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"Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat."
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"The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk."
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"And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know."
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"The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then."
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"It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more.""
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"We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different."
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"Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured."
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"Dogs are fine in the field."
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