Kenneth G. Wilson Quotes
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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I may or may not be the best fighter in the world but I want to be the best entertainer, so when you see my fights before and after, you'll remember my entrance and the fight. When I've walked in there, you'll know I've walked in there!
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Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
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If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
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Next time you're at a wishing well. Doesn't happen often. Next time you're at a wishing well ask to see the manager! Tell him you've been coming there for 10 years and none of your wishes have come true. Either you gimme my money back-or I'm shittin' in the well!
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The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
