Frederic Raphael Quotes
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
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Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'
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In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
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President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others.
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We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.
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I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.
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They based their extrapolations on numbers. That worked as long as money, which is easily measured numerically, was the principle motivating force in human affairs. But as time progressed, human actions became responsive instead to a multitude of incommensurable vectors.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
