John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Thought from which no emotion springs is sterile. The knowledge that has no bearing on the conduct of life is vain.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
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The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.
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The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.
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On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize: I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
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My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.
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Thought from which no emotion springs is sterile. The knowledge that has no bearing on the conduct of life is vain.
