Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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I know it's late, I know you're wearyI know your plans don't include meStill here we are, both of us lonelyLonging for shelter from all that we seeWhy should we worry, no one will care girlLook at the stars so far awayWe've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?We've got tonight babe,Why don't you stay?
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Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
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...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
