Alberto Santos-Dumont Quotes
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane)
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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Pilates is great.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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Women are over 50 percent of the population.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.
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I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
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In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
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Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
