Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
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Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.
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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.
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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
