Alfred W. Crosby Quotes
What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'
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It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people
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John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.
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I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.
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What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
