Paul Dirac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.
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Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him.
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Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
