C. V. Raman Quotes
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
Karan Johar
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
Victoria Pendleton
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
Frances Beinecke
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
Inge de Bruijn
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
Iain McGilchrist
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
Eden Hazard
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
Osman Rashid
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I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Tammy Duckworth
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Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
Eric Shanteau
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
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Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'
Charlyne Yi
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
Gary Sheffield
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In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
Kelly Evans
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
C. V. Raman