Abraham Pais Quotes
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.
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Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: 'Learn what dwells in man.' And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.
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Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.
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The timeless moment. - The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
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America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.
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When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
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Sometimes when I'm just really relaxed, that's also a creative time for me, because that's when my mind is more open because I'm not worried or thinking or being very analytical.
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I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.
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I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
