Arthur Eddington Quotes
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.
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I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
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The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
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Clinton's a schmuck.
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In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.
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I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.
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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
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Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.
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pp. 56–57
