Edwin A. Abbott Quotes
Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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We're going to respond to the Gulf within 72 hours. After a disaster, if you can get people rescued within 72 hours; they are far better off as far as getting them rescued without additional injury or illness or loss of life.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
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And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
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Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.
