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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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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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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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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I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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There is nothing more American than acknowledging that even if we don't agree politically, even if we don't agree with the president, even if we don't like each other, all of us have the same rights.
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
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We've got so many ideas for songs and good riffs, and the more we work, the more we tour, we're getting more ideas, just more. It's just gonna get better and better. I can't see an end to it. It's like infinity rock and roll.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.
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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.
