David Ricardo Quotes
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?
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The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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I've been incredibly fortunate to have so many people believe in me.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
