Ragnar Frisch Quotes
A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
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Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
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I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
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Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
