Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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I've been a free man.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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I think I have good judgment.
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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
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The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.
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Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are.
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When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
