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Results of search for Author: Alfred North Whitehead - Page 1 of 4
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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