Charles Birch Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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Iraq has WMDs. It is not something we think, it is something we know. Iraq has itself admitted that it has had mustard gas, nerve gas, anthrax, but Saddam won't disclose. He won't tell us where and how these weapons have been destroyed. We know this from the UN inspectors, so there is no doubt in my mind.
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It was so fun to see my hair all brushed out - it looked like caramel-flavored cotton candy!
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Science is our last and greatest frontier.
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I love my work. It's been good to me.
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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
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I really live in my own kind of universe.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.
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The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live.
