Hal Clement Quotes
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.
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Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
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And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.