James Lovelock Quotes
I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
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I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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I believe Philippe Coutinho is a player who would totally fit in Barcelona.
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'There’s a law,' Chuck said, 'which I call Rittersdorf’s Third Law of Diminished Returns, which states that proportional to how long you hold a job you imagine that it has progressively less and less importance in the scheme of things.'
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I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.
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Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.
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Si veris magna paraturfama bonis et si successu nuda remotoinspicitur virtus, quidquid laudamus in ullomaiorum, fortuna fuit.
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I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
