Joseph Priestley Quotes

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

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• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
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  • Dad

• Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Purpose
  • Ownership

• I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Old
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• What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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  • Socialism

• The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Giving
  • Small
  • Gravity

• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Why
  • Know
  • Question

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Best

• It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Together
  • Way
  • Teacher

• I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Real
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• From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Bad
  • Fall
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• By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

  

  Barry Schuler
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• If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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  • Children
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• I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

  

  Little Richard
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• Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Focus
  • Fool
  • Murder

• ... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Taken
  • Chocolate

• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Action

• Sam Lessin, project manager at Facebook, suggests, “We as a species in the last few decades have gotten three new superpowers. . . . We can literally remember anything, we can talk to anyone on earth instantly for free, and we can process huge amounts of data.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Remember
  • Process
  • Talk

• Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!

  

  Eric Liddell
  • World
  • Needs
  • Christ

• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Lead
  • Individuals
  • Choiceless

• Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

  

  Joseph Priestley
  • Process
  • Steps
  • Great Work