Aristotle Quotes
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
Quotes to Explore
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.
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I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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This one has to rank up there as maybe the best, coming from a long way back. That just tells a lot about the guys in this clubhouse.
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Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
