Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Fortes Fortuna iuvat.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory. . . . Let 'desire' be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.
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We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.
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The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.
