William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.
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Einstein said that 'the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.' So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
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I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
