Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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It (taking photographs) is all about longing without longing-no pictures at all.
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If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.
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The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
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Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
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Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
