Norman Pirie Quotes
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Something's gone terribly wrong,You're all I wanted.Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Can't breathe whenever your gone,Can't turn backNow I'm haunted.
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I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
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I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
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I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.
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My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.
