Raymond Williams Quotes
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
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When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
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A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
