Archimedes Quotes

Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

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• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

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• Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

  

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• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

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• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

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• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

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• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

  

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• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

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• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

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• Make health care a right, not a privilege.

  

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• I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.

  

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• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

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• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

  

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• Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

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• 'It wouldn’t be the truth,' said Sutton.'That,' said Trevor, 'doesn’t have a thing to do with it.'

  

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• If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.

  

  Mark Walport
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• To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
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• Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

  

  Archimedes
  • Balance