Eric Johnson Quotes
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park
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Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
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I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.
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In a weird way scientists understand things on a higher level but it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of time.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I try to ignore it, but it's sinking in that I'm, I'm all alone with me.
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The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
