Charles Seife Quotes
The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.
Charles Seife
Quotes to Explore
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
Hans Hofmann
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I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Sam Heughan
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It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.
Gary Bettman
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
Jack Henry Abbott
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Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of questions: from questions that Mr.Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury the picture of the Ewell's home life.
Harper Lee
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
Fernando Pessoa
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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
Maimonides
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Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.
Alfred North Whitehead
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If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
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There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.
Jimmy Carter
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I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.
Daisy Ridley