Andre Norton Quotes
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
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When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.
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The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
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Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
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To be whole is to be part;true voyage is return.
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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.
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We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.
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I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.
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Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
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You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.
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I wasn't unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.
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I suspect that a major goal of the reform campaign is to make the work of a teacher so degrading and insulting that the dignified and the truly educated teachers will simply leave while they still retain a modicum of self-respect.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?
