Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
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Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
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...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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What gives me strength is thinking about my children.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
