Amby Burfoot Quotes
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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It took a couple of hours to index the site. I knew it would help. When people look for products, especially nowadays, they go right to search.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
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Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
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The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.
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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
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Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition
