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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Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
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While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
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I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.
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We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
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We are not significant on the cosmic scale.
