William Ramsay Quotes
The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
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This little bathtub smells like ass.24.
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How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
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My niggas stack their money just to spend it'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you
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It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
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If you look at our country's history, change doesn't come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people.
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What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?
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For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you're trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you're just on a roller coaster.
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The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.
