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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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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I can appreciate other writers' works.
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Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.
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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.
