Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.

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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

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• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
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• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
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• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
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• Many support what I am doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• Christianity has been one of the most powerful causes of democracy, but the conscious influence of the Church has more widely been exerted against democracy than for it.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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• The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Young boys must be taught to play football without leading with or lowering their heads. Young players must be drilled over and over and over with Heads Up Football skills until that skill set becomes muscle memory and second nature.

  

  Peter Berg
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• Business is other people's money.

  

  Vicomte Delaunay
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• I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

  

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• It's funny because as much as I've done Dr. Freeman, I guess because I shave right afterwards, people don't recognize me necessarily as Dr. Freeman, whereas a small role like 'Garden State' or 'Get Him to the Greek', which is the funniest one to me, they're like, 'Hey, you're that dude!' and you're like, 'Oh my God!' Which is awesome.

  

  Ato Essandoh
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• I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

  

  Bob Shaw
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• I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this dress, can I get it?' And she'll say, 'Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.'

  

  Margaret Qualley
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• I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
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• I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

  

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• I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

  

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• Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

  

  Peter Marshall
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• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

  

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• Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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