John Lubbock Quotes
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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But I think we need the international market.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
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I said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the boy scouts, right?
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You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
