William Whewell Quotes
To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
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We are neither radically free to choose our nature nor entirely determined by our biological heritage.
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You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
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I plan to die at my desk.
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To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
