J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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It was a little skirmish across a century.
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Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
