Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.
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My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
