Arthur Holly Compton Quotes
At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
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Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
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The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I was born into it; we all were. But we may not feel the ties unless we gain intimacy by seeing, feeling, smelling, touching and studying the natural world. Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.
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At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
