Paul Davies Quotes
It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"
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Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.
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Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.
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The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.
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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.
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People lose in trade, and because our social safety nets here are so thin to begin with, the resistance is greater than it is in some of the other industrial countries.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Turn the lights on as we fall into the night. Keep your eyes shut. Make your night start. Dance into the sound of life.
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I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.
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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
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It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"
