William Whewell Quotes
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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Like, I mean I don't even know why you girls bother at this point. Like give it up, it's me. I win and you lose.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over these past two days.
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They have to pay people competitive wages and competitive benefits.
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Death should take more care with his paperwork.
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
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Cognitive processes surely exist, so it can hardly be unscientific to study them.
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Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
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Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
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Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
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We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
