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 don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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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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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
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I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
