Ahmed Zewail Quotes
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.
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Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
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I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
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It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.
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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
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I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
