Stephen Samuel Wise Quotes
It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
Quotes to Explore
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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I am frequently attacked.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!
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'I have a covenant with God. I cannot ask for anything outside what is written in the covenant. What I will achieve in this world is in a book I am carrying everyday; I just have to open the pages. Outside the book is not mine.'
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
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My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
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Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
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Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
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The Gospel Prayer
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
