Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.
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Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
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The prostheses do not run the race on their own: there is an athlete who does the work, and the prosthetics do not make a significant difference to the time.
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I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
