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 finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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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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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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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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We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
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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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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
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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.
