Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.
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There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy:
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Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
