Colin Maclaurin Quotes
As magnitude, of every sort, abstractedly considered, is capable of being increased to infinity, and is also divisible without end; so we find that, in nature, the limits of the greatest and least dimensions of things, are actually placed at an immense distance from each other.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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I hate birthdays.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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And with the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military action but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world.
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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As magnitude, of every sort, abstractedly considered, is capable of being increased to infinity, and is also divisible without end; so we find that, in nature, the limits of the greatest and least dimensions of things, are actually placed at an immense distance from each other.
