Humphry Davy Quotes
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

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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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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.
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I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'
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I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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My experiences have shown me that when an opportunity bigger than you comes along and you feel unprepared and doubtful, it is important to permit those emotions and let that energy drive you and inspire you to move forward.
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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.