B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.B. H. Liddell Hart
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Harlan Ellison -
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson -
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
Ted Yoho -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
Aaron Yoo -
I really don't believe in magic.
Joanne Rowling -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
C. Everett Koop -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
Frances Beinecke -
Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel Castro -
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Dana Hussein -
I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Paloma Faith
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Natalie Dormer -
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
Rachel Ticotin -
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
Dana Spiotta -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander
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For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.
Jenna Wortham -
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin -
Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts -
There's not a person in the United States of America who doesn't love country or have some kind of tie to it.
Danny Gokey -
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B. H. Liddell Hart