Scott Adams Quotes
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
Aaron Yoo -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Kuang
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
Every casting director I've met is a woman.
Cameron Diaz -
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
Camille Paglia -
Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
Carl Andre -
Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
Ben Carson -
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Livy -
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.
H. P. Lovecraft
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All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.
William Friedkin -
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
Darin Strauss -
I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
Taylor Wilson -
You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.
Edward Leedskalnin -
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams