Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
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Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.
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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
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I try to take care of myself as much as possible.
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Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
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It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.
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Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.
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I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.
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Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
