Abraham Pais Quotes
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
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But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.
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Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
