Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.
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The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.
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When you're young, playing drums is immediately satisfying 'cause whether or not you know how to play anything, the bottom line is that you're pounding on something, so you're happy about it.
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I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
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I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.
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If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.
