Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
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I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.
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At first I only used the Scotch to flavor the seltzer. Then I left out the seltzer altogether and only retained the ice cubes with the Scotch. Today, I am proud to say, I have emancipated myself from all such crutches. I drink my Scotch straight.
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I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.
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Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
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We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.
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The opinions of my friends can be an important model for discovery. We want to create a platform so that the knowledge in people's heads flows onto the Web for the benefit of others.
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I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
