Joseph Needham Quotes
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
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Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
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Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
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Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.
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Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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But now we're here we have bought a few things. They were offering discounts, and my wife can't help herself when it comes to a bargain.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.
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The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.
