Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes
Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.
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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.
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Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
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Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.
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Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!
