Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
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Dance should mean something to you.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
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These were not religious fanatics, I saw, not mindless servants or self-punishing ascetics, but were, instead, row upon row of intelligent, questioning, alert young men and women.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
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Shame on you, Barack Obama! 18
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
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At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
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The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
