William Whewell Quotes
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Don't think I'm not incoheret.
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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
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Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".
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Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.
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Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
