John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
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I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.
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I'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'
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It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
