Arthur David Ritchie Quotes
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
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I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
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Gene therapy technology is much like computing technology. We had to build the super computer which cost $8 million in 1960. Now everyone has technologies that work predictably and at a cost the average person can afford.
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For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
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We cannot justify ourselves in living by that particular part of the word that appeals to us, the part that we desire to obey, but must be willing to. . . live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
