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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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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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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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:
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Even when the Earth phases out, sun the diminishes, and everything goes wherever it goes to, the experience of your Knowledge cannot diminish. It is from where even, you might say, eternity starts. It is the source of all sources. It is. It is the experience which is beyond death, beyond creation, beyond anything in this world.
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Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
