Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
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I'm learning every day.
Laura Harrier
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
Jack Palance
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
Felix Adler
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.
Randy Lerner
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
Valerie Bertinelli
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver Herford
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
Edgar Lee Masters
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I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.
Audrey Hepburn
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
Akio Morita
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
Paula Fox
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What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.
Emily Ratajkowski
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Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
Charles Perrault
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I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa.
Doug Jones
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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
Chris Wood
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle