John Pople Quotes
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
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The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
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Bush Administration was a success.
Garry Kasparov -
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
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I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.
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Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.
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When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
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I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.
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Obviously, it was a very conscious decision not to go down the same route we'd travelled before. In retrospect I don't think OK Computer sounded that much different to The Bends but this one does - it's a lot more textural and unlike anything we've done before.
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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
