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"I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing."
"For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal."
"I was in awe every time I walked on to the field"
"Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting."
"When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work."
"Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true."
"There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown."
"A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being."
"Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly."
"Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention"
"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps."
"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy."
"The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties."
"We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?"
"It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there."
"As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read."
"The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention."
"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."
"Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite."
"There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material."
