William Whewell Quotes
A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.
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I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.
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My career, I think, indicates I'm not afraid of anything.
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A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
