John Stuart Mill Quotes
The application of algebra to geometry... far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.
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I literally can't get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came to London, and now I really struggle because there's no dot to show where I am. And I think that part of my brain doesn't work any more.
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All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
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Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
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The application of algebra to geometry... far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
