Alan Lightman Quotes
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.Alan Lightman
Quotes to Explore
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. Howe -
Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
Candace Kita -
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
Mae Jemison -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
Ulrich Beck
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Jack Welch -
Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
Pardis Sabeti -
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman -
I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
Ted Cruz -
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid -
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Natan Sharansky -
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Abdul Qadeer Khan -
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw -
And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
Eli Wallach -
'There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in.'
Chris Colfer -
I think I was supposed to play jazz.
Herbie Hancock -
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
Alan Lightman