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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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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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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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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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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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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I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
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At different times in your life, your body needs different things.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
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Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.
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I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don't know what you need to know, so you go get the information.
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I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
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One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
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Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
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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.
