Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Quotes
Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
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When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.
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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
