Charles Babbage Quotes
If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection.. .My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.
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If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.
