Philip James Bailey Quotes
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
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If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
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I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
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Don't need a gun to blow your mind...
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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A great European war under modern conditions would be a catastrophe for which previous wars afforded no precedent. In old days nations could collect only portions of their men and resources at a time and dribble them out by degrees. Under modern conditions whole nations could be mobilized at once and their whole life-blood and resources poured out in a torrent. Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction. The financial strain and the expenditure of wealth would be incredible. I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
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Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
