Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.
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I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.
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Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
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I made a conscious decision to believe. Every day. I keep deciding to believe.
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Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.
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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.
