Karl Ferdinand Braun Quotes

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

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• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

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• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

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• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

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• I can always go back to education.

  

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• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

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• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

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• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

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• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

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• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.

  

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• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

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• I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

  

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• Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

  

  Olavo de Carvalho
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• In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Summer