Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
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To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
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I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
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It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
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Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
