Eric Temple Bell Quotes
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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You were born as the one you are.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I hate birthdays.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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One must be something in order to do something.
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
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My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.
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The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
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I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
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There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.
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As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.
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Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.
