George Sarton Quotes
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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I've been racketeered on.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
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We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
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To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
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It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
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As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.
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I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
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'Morality, Religion And Bullsh*T: An Interview With Penn Jillette' by Ryan Shaffer, at the American Humanist Association (December 2012)
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.
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What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
