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.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
Dan Aykroyd
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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.
Oliver Tambo
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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.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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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.
Patrick Stewart
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson
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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.
Parker Young
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
Yami Gautam
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston
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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.
Hamza Yusuf
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky
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I like to control my own personal life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.
Parker Posey
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Tayari Jones
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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.
Edmund Phelps
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I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.
Andy Dunn
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Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
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I'm not going to have a six-pack abs. I think it's a luxury to have six-pack abs, but I don't think I can afford it yet. It's extremely tough, and I think having it will be an achievement.
Harshvardhan Rane
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Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
Charles Handy
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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.
Alfred Smee