M. King Hubbert Quotes
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I'm not super into sports.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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The education of the Nazi elite, it turns out, is the education of super-racketeers and gangsters from among the biologically superior. The concept of ‘noblesse oblige’ is transformed into its polar opposite;…
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Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.
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Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
