John Charles Polanyi Quotes
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
Quotes to Explore
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
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My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
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If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
