James Bryant Conant Quotes
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
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Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.
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I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.
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I like quality over quantity.
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I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
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I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
