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 feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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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've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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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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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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Q: Does commercial success matter to you?
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
