J. B. Bury Quotes
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.
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History is a science, no more and no less.
