Alan Lightman Quotes
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
Larry Niven
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
John Calvin
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I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.
Ellen G. White
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When there’s wickedness in our hearts, God will wait until that wickedness surfaces. He is capable of applying as much heat as it takes to surface the garbage in our hearts, no matter how much we might try to mask our sinfulness with piety.
Bob Sorge
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman