Charles Lapworth Quotes
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I just love dancing.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.
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In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.
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I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.
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The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
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Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
