Ivar Giaever Quotes
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
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'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'
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I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.
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Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.
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People say you can't change the world. But you can change people.
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I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.
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One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
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There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
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Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.
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It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.
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In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
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In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;God, God, God!
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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
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I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
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When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
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Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
