Alfred Smee Quotes
To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them.
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So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
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To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.
