Quotes 201 till 220 of 984.
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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.
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Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Source: Steve Job's career timeline, CNN, 2009 -
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
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During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction.
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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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