"Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection."
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"Success is a refined study of the obvious"
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"A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!"
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"Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers."
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"Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like."
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"You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter."
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"Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts."
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"I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame."
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"My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened."
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"Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping."
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"I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me."
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"Utterance is the evidence of foregone study."
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"For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning."
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"The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically."
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"There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil."
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"By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!"
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"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life."
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"I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination."
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"According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job."
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"Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal"."
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