Edwin Conklin Quotes
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn
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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
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There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.
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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
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In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.
