George Westinghouse Quotes
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.
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We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.
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I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
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If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
