William H. Calvin Quotes
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.
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I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
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There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
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Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
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This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
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I want nothing but death.
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
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There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks
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The permafrost is still warmest at the very bottom, but instead of being coldest at the top, it is coldest somewhere in the middle, and warmer again toward the surface. This is a sign—and an unambiguous one—that the climate is heating up.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
