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.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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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.
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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.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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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.
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Everything must belong somewhere.I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.
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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.
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I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
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The college students come out and they’re doing something for the first time, so by definition it’s dramatic for the most part, but most people don’t jump out of the airplane or sign up to become a French clown. That’s not the move they’re mostly making. They’re mostly making things a little bit better where they are and so to make things a little better where you are, you really got to get underneath what’s bugging you, what is working for you.
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Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.
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They are not my forces, they are military forces that belong to the government.… I don't own them. I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.
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There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.
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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.
