Edwin Conklin Quotes
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now - for we must not pray, except in a 'form' of words, made beforehand - or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
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I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.
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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
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It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
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Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
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Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
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I've never been onstage in my life.
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If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
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Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.
