Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
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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 can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
