Andrew Dickson White Quotes
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
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Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.
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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system in Euclidean geometry by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment during the Renaissance. In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.
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The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
