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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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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While domestically the president may be able to somewhat reshape his/her image through defining moments and actions, this is far less feasible internationally.
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.
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The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
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Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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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.
