William Fogg Osgood Quotes
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be important.
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I don't rely on my figure to sell records.
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They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so ungrateful.. I'm a keep it moving, be classy and graceful
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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
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I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.
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He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.
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I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.
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It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
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Having ADD makes life paradoxical. You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can’t accomplish a thing.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
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The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
