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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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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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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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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I'm not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I'm playing well and feeling good.
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
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Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
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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.
