Ernest Lawrence Quotes
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
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The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
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Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
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What is it that drives us outward to the stars above and to the shores below? Is it the security of knowing what's there? Or is it the adventure of finding it?
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Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
