Galileo Galilei Quotes
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
