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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Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.
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When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.
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Chance favors only those who court her.
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Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar.
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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.
