Sean M. Carroll Quotes
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.
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Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.
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This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose.
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.
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I think the country's in trouble. And I think I have a pretty clear sense of the values and principles that have made this country great. I've had a chance to govern and lead with those in mind, with some significant success in Minnesota. And I think the country needs that kind of leadership and insight and perspective.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.
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We are not significant on the cosmic scale.
