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.]
Quotes to Explore
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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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A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.
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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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.]
