Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
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'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
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Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?
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Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.
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Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
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I see the world through Irish eyes, and they are smiling.
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To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.
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Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful.
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I tend to flood and freeze up if I’m feeling overwhelmed. When this happens, it’s usually because I feel like the world is crashing down and all is lost. One trick I’ve learned is to force myself to make a list of what’s actually wrong. Usually, soon into making the list, I find I can group most of the issues into two or three larger all-encompassing problems. So it’s really not all that bad. Having a finite list of problems is much better than having an illogical feeling that everything is wrong.
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All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
