Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.
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I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
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What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
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Many people effectively stop carrying out what it's called 'life's a movie.' The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
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You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.
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In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
