Galileo Galilei Quotes
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?
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There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice.
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My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
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I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports.
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We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
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Every inch of the way, the drug has shown its safety, and each of the groups here and certainly us have been satisfied with the safety.
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I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
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[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.
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I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.
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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . . .
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.
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Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.
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My sweet ass has been in this car.
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I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
