Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.
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Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
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Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
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The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
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Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
