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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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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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 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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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.
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The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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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.
