Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.
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Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.
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Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
