Ralph Merkle Quotes
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
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If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
