Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.
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I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.
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How are people still working with Terry Richardson?
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I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
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It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.
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We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.
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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
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The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
