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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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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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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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.
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I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.
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There's such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You've got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren't afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It's amazing.
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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
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The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates
