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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My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
Peter Carey
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I was never raised to think that I was pretty. It's not that I was raised to think I was unattractive, but it was just never something that was pointed out to me by my family. They would point out personality traits — 'our daughter is really quirky' — versus what I look like, because inevitably, looks go, so it makes no difference.
Mila Kunis
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Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
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History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
Albert Goldbarth
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Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.
F. B. Meyer
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle