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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Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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To see how to make something more general, you need to start with something concrete. In particular, you need to understand the specifics of a particular domain to discover the right abstractions.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
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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.
