Michael Polanyi Quotes
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
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The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.
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Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
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What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
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When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.
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Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
