William Bateson Quotes
Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
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Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
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The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
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My music has been my passport to the world, and it's been amazing for me.
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She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
