Charles Babbage Quotes
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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I lost my confidence.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
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I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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I don’t know where to begin my speech. I don’t know what people would be expecting me to say, but first of all thank you to God for whom we are equal and thank you to every person who has prayed for my fast recovery and new life.
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I'll stop calling it the iPhone right now. Instead, for the remainder of this article, it'll be known as the Jabscreen. A better name in any case.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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I had a run in with Whitney Houston, or as I call her, 'Cracky.' Allegedly.
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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
