William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.William Kingdon Clifford
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
Garth Brooks -
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook -
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
Ed Harris -
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
I. M. Pei -
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
Orhan Pamuk
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank -
I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
Ice Cube -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim -
It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
Kaley Cuoco -
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
Wendy Kopp -
I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
Raekwon
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
Eddie Campbell -
I got a granite chin.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
Nazanin Boniadi -
For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
Taylor Swift -
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
Naval Ravikant -
I don't watch a lot of TV.
Katee Sackhoff
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If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be doing this. I'd still be writing songs. I'd still be recording them. I was doing that for four years in Nashville. This is just on a larger stage.
Maren Morris -
Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus -
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
Denise Richards -
Cameras intrigued me.
Garry Winogrand -
We are positioning the company to create a better shared future for all of our stakeholders by delivering on our vision and growing sustainably.
James Quincey -
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.
William Kingdon Clifford