Charles Dickens Quotes
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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Science has no prejudices - though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.
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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
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Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
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Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
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Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
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I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is happy. Every experience I have had here is fun, and everyone is in a good mood; they are happy, and they let it go. I like that. It is refreshing to me.
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I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.
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I expected results.
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From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.
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These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
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The prime purpose of the occupation was not to take land or push people from their homes. It did that too of course, and effectively, but overall, with its checkpointed and its walls and its prisons and its permits, it functioned as a giant humiliation machine, a complex and sophisticated mechanism for the production of human despair.
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Are there no prisons?
