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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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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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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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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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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His Edouard Manet's paintings, as they always do, produce the impression of a wild or even a somewhat unripe fruit. I do not in the least dislike them.
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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
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The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
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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.
