Boris Sidis Quotes
The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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Don't cry over spilt milk.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it's like, 'Oh, wait, I'm here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.'
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At times those who do not want to have their inconsistencies pointed out say in a super-sweet voice to me "Judge not, lest ye be judged." I reply "O.K., judge me, then."
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
