Michael Polanyi Quotes

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  

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• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

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• Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

  

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• Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

  

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• Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

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• Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

  

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• When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

  

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• As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
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• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
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• It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

  

  Confucius
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• Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

  

  Norm MacDonald
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• We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

  

  Michael Polanyi
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