George Sarton Quotes
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
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A man can preach no better than he prays.
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I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.
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I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.
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In the first three months, half of my salary went for a pigeonhole in the Siberian end of town.
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Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
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The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.
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From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.
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From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
