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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It's good to remember often, every day, that you are not a physical creature in a physical universe; but a non-physical consciousness vibrating at a certain frequency. You are Consciousness having a state of being, that's it. Everything else you perceive is simply an illusory crystallization of your chosen vibration. You are the Creator of your life, in this way.
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Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.
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It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.
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The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."
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I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.
