Daniel Kleppner Quotes
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And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
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Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
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You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.
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The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it.
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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.
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Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
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If you can't send money, send tobacco.
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Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?
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All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.
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I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.
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If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
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Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
