Herbert Spencer Quotes
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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I have selective hearing.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
