John Charles Polanyi Quotes
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I don't have many friends.
