Pamela Sargent Quotes
People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.
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I'm here to compete. I'm here to be number one.
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People would ask me, 'what do you want to be when you're older?' and I'd be like, 'a singer', and they'd be like, 'what do you really want to be?' and I'd be like, 'oh, I really want to be a singer.'
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I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
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People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
