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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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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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 wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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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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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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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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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.
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Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
