Arthur Holly Compton Quotes
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.