David Bohm Quotes
I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment...
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
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I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment...
