William Stanley Jevons Quotes
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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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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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I hate birthdays.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves,' Kapil Dev.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
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We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
