James Cronin Quotes
I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I'm very unorganized.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
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Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Dalits have faced a unique discrimination in our society that is fundamentally different from the problems of minority groups in general. The only parallel to the practice of untouchability was apartheid.
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
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A band like the Cult was never, ever destined to be super huge, because it's just never going to be for everybody. But I think the Cult is multifaceted, and that gives us a longevity.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
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I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.
