Edward Victor Appleton Quotes
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears as atomic energy.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
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I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
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I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.
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Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
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Seniors are attracted to the simplicity of the storefronts, ... They would rather speak one-on-one with a person.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
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Place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.
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But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
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No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears as atomic energy.
