John Maynard Smith Quotes
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
S. E. Hinton
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
Taron Egerton
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It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
Ian Hacking
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
Gail Carson Levine
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
Carl Bernstein
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You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
Edmund Phelps
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J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.
J. L. Austin
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Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
Galileo Galilei
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Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
Warren Farrell
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Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.
Emily Osment
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In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.
Mathieu Kassovitz
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So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.
W. Clement Stone
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
Gary Hume
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First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.
Wayne White
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Societies depend on agreed rules.
John Maynard Smith
