Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
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The organic unity of mathematics is inherent in the nature of this science, for mathematics is the foundation of all exact knowledge of natural phenomena. That it may completely fulfil this high mission, may the new century bring it gifted masters and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples!
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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The market we're going after is the clean-energy market.
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If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
