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 in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.

  

  Salar Kamangar
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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.

  

  Pat Gillick
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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.

  

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

  

  Wally Lamb
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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.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • She
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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
  • Law
  • Prime Minister
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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.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
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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.

  

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

  

  Walter de La Mare
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• I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

  

  Elayne Boosler
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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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• Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Possibility
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• The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

  

  William Butler Yeats
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• Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.

  

  Stephen Covey
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• The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

  

  Theresa May
  • Relationship
  • Principles
  • Migration

• You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

  

  Xenophon
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Discipline

• 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
  • Principles
  • Introducing
  • Randomness