Frederick Pollock Quotes
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
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My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.
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One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
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But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
