John Ambrose Fleming Quotes
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.
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My mum and dad were incredibly supportive - although I suspect my dad would have preferred me to go the university route. However, I know they were extremely proud when I won the 2011 BAFTA Best Actor for playing comedian Eric Morecambe in 'Eric and Ernie.'
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
