Victor Francis Hess Quotes
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.
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I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society.
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From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
