Nikola Tesla Quotes
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
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How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
