Arthur Eddington Quotes

Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.

Arthur Eddington

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• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  

  Warren G. Harding
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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
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• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

  

  Halsey
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• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

  

  Sally Pearson
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• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

  

  Alex Haley
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• They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. ...All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.

  

  Alan Grayson
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• To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

  

  Coventry Patmore

• It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
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• When we make the effort for each other, it makes the difference.

  

  Kylian Mbappe
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• So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.

  

  Gail Fine
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• When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

  

  Sia LSD
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• We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
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• Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.

  

  Arthur Eddington