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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules -- Thomas Huxley
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain. -- Thomas Huxley
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. -- Francis Bacon
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India. -- Gregory David Roberts
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. -- Emile M. Cioran
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart. -- Georg Trakl
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. -- Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. -- Edmund Burke
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. -- George Mason
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. -- Ivan Turgenev
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. -- Alfred Marshall
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished. -- Jean Dujardin
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. -- Charles Kendall Adams
By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana. -- James Monroe
There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it. -- Ruta Gedmintas
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. -- Karl A. Menninger
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly. -- Phylicia Rashad
Lies exist only to be extinguished. -- Thomas Carlyle
Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived. -- Sophia Lee
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. -- Livy
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. -- Archibald MacLeish
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. -- Seneca the Younger
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. -- Luisa Sigea de Velasco
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. -- Pierre Corneille
Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished. -- Chiara Lubich
Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. -- Bryan Appleyard
The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished. -- Martin Luther
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. -- Pablo Neruda
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished -- Nelson Mandela
Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh. -- Aberjhani
To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge -- Dejan Stojanovic
Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it. -- Epicurus
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session. -- Gib Lewis
Had there been no gravity, my tears would have extinguished the fire my head is on. -- Junaid e Mustafa
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. -- Pierre Corneille
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is a light which cannot ever be extinguished. It is inside of you... It is you. -- Neale Donald Walsch
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. -- Samuel Johnson
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public. -- Hannah Arendt
Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke. -- Alfred Austin
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. -- Laurence Overmire
A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature -- Guido von List
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. -- Lucretius
Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished? -- Dave Barry
Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind. -- James Madison
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. -- Horace
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world. -- Richard M. Nixon
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium... -- Jon Elster
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Your inner glow comes from the light of God, and your light can never be extinguished or soiled. You are eternally bright and beautiful. -- Doreen Virtue
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. -- Ingmar Bergman
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are -- Deepak Chopra
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished. -- Libba Bray
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London. -- Charles de Gaulle
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century. -- Alfred Marshall
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. -- Thomas Carlyle
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. -- Norman Douglas
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished... -- Tennessee Williams
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity. -- Joseph Addison
The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions. -- Michael Lewis
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ... -- Paulo Coelho
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. -- Edward Gibbon
The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue? -- Friedrich Kellner
O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished. -- James Boswell
The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it. -- Herbert Hoover
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment. -- Iain Pears
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished. -- Nathaniel Branden
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. -- Steven Pinker
Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling... -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no place in our heart permanently left vacant. -- Thomas S. Monson
Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished." -- Nelson Mandela
On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever. -- Edward Gibbon
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death? -- Marcus Aurelius
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence? --
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. -- Khalil Gibran
Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away. -- Carl Sagan
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. -- Friedrich Schiller
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.... -- Heraclitus
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them. -- Tikhon of Zadonsk
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces. -- J. K. Rowling
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze? -- Victor Hugo
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes? -- Michelangelo
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about -- Ingmar Bergman

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