William Lawrence Bragg Quotes
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.

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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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The point of having nuclear weapons is to deter a war of any kind. They have succeeded in doing so for the past 37 years. To be an effective deterrent a potential aggressor must believe that under certain circumstances such weapons will be used.
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The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
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When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.
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Every day is quite unique, which is one of my favorite things!
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My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference.
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.