James Cronin Quotes
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
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Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
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It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.
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Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
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There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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I like a girl to wear oversize sweaters that look like my own - it's beyond sexy.
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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
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When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
