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  • Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. -- Richard Owen
  • Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. -- Matt LeBlanc
  • The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. -- Aeschylus
  • The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. -- Georg Hermes
  • The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. -- Felix Adler
  • Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution. -- Annie Besant
  • Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction. -- Edward Grey
  • Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. -- Edmund Husserl
  • But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system. -- Henry Mayhew
  • This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. -- Asa Gray
  • I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities. -- J. Irwin Miller
  • What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. -- Tina Brown
  • The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation. -- Gautam Singhania
  • Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus. -- Alexander McCall Smith
  • Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know. -- Jonathan Miller
  • When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • For good is simple, evil manifold. -- Aristotle
  • Truth is one, but error is manifold. -- Simone Weil
  • The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold. -- Hippocrates
  • Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live. -- Paul Celan
  • When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing. -- David Levithan
  • Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.... -- William Butler Yeats
  • Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. -- Terence McKenna
  • I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us -- J. G. Ballard
  • We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. -- Dorothy Dunnett
  • If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. -- Jean Sibelius
  • You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. -- Swami Muktananda
  • A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. -- Aldous Huxley
  • we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. -- Alexander McCall Smith
  • The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. -- William Robertson Nicoll
  • Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • ... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use. -- Timothy Gowers
  • Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species. -- James Joyce
  • We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed. -- Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
  • Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. -- Samuel Smiles
  • You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. -- George Santayana
  • To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite. -- Rufus Choate
  • For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements. -- Richard Matheson
  • I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry -- Sigmund Freud
  • Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
  • But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system -- Henry Mayhew
  • If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. -- Bertrand Russell
  • The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature. -- Paul Cezanne
  • Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray. -- Anne Bradstreet
  • Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society. -- Michel Foucault
  • ...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
  • Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays. -- Edith Stein
  • A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator -- Charlotte Mason
  • Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know -- Jonathan Miller
  • Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know." -- Jonathan Miller
  • The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions. -- Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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