Adam Sedgwick Quotes
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Quotes to Explore
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Life is like an analogy.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
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You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
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Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
