George Sarton Quotes
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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It's a pure dream team to work with Hrithik, Sanjay sir and Rakesh sir.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
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I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
