William Winwood Reade Quotes
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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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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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
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Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice.
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As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
