Homer Hickam Quotes
You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
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I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
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When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.
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I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.
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You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
