Victor Hugo Quotes
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Quotes to Explore
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
