J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.
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There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
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National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
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TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
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We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
