George Sarton Quotes
It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I don't mean to be funny.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
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I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.
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One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
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We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.
