Victor Francis Hess Quotes
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.
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Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
