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I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.


Nicholson Baker


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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.


Charles Dickens


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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.


Tryon Edwards


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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.


Kate Chopin


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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.


Christopher Columbus


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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.


William James


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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.


Nicolaus Copernicus


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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.


Emmet Fox


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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.


E. Franklin Frazier


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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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