Nicolas Steno Quotes
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:
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I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.
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Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.
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There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.
