Simon Cameron Quotes

I am tired of all this thing called science here. We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.

Simon Cameron

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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

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• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

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• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

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• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
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• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

  

  Zach Anner
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• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
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• Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

  

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• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

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• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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• The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

  

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• I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
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• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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  • Nature
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• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

  

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  • Science
  • Health
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• I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

  

  Jason Molina
  • Tired

• Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto.

  

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• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

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  • Time
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• The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

  

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  • Life

• I am tired of all this thing called science here. We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.

  

  Simon Cameron
  • Science
  • Years
  • Tired