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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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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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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The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.
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The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.
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I don't have a gender thesis. I am truly optimizing for the right person for the task, whether that means running a company or working on my team.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
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Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
