Steven Weinberg Quotes
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
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. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
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Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
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There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.
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The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
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Carl Schmitt in theory is one thing; confined to a few conservatives on the right and a somewhat greater number of envious postmodernists on the left, Schmitt’s ideas have not reached the informed reading public. Schmitt’s books are destined to be confined to the political theory sem inar room for some time to come.
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On ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ we’d had one of our first arguments about the level of the bass guitar. Our engineer Mike Johnson had insisted to the others they were wrong to suggest turning it down. ‘It’s a great counterpoint,’ he’d said. ‘That’s what New Order is all about.
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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
