Karl Pearson Quotes
The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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Love is a state of being.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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People don't get my sense of humour.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
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I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
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Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.
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The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.
