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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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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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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I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.
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It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
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I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
