S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
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• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Early
  • While
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• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
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• Screaming is hard after a while.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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  • While
  • After

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
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• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
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• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

  

  J. August Richards
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• If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
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• A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure - financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries - that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans.

  

  Dan Coats
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• For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While