Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
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Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily.
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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
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To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
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People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
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It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans.
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Don’t confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal.
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The answer is: the rational faculty, the ability to conceptualize. This was a giant step in evolution, although there were evidently many intermediate species between the apes and modern humans across a period of perhaps six million years.
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The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.
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The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.
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The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.
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Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
