William Whewell Quotes
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
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But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.
