George Wald Quotes
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.
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Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
