H. Bentley Glass Quotes
The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I'm very interested in science.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.
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But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.
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The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates
