Francis Darwin Quotes
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
Usher
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Beck
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
Laura Schlessinger
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
Ingvar Kamprad
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Rafael Correa
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
Patricia Highsmith
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
Rachel Dratch
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
Taylor Swift
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Everything must belong somewhere.I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
Henry David Thoreau
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I predict the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
Anne Frank
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The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
David Steinberg
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It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
Blair Underwood
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In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin
