Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.Alfred North Whitehead
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn -
The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
Viktor Orban -
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid -
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
Victor LaValle -
I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
Parker Posey
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens -
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
J. B. Smoove -
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
Kate Spade -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
O. J. Simpson -
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
Earl Butz -
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen -
Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
Kat Graham -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
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I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.
Joe Lieberman -
'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
Gary Sherman -
money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.
Caitlin Thomas -
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead