G. H. Hardy Quotes
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
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But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
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Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
