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.
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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.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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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.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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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.
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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.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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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.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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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.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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We've been in negotiations, as you know, right through the night and at 6:17 this morning, he brought down the gavel on a set of agreements that may well save the planet.
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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.
