If you're there before it's over, you're on time.
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation.
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
Freeman Dyson: Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer. Interview with Donald J.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
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If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.
America is one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
Fear God and work hard.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
You don't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
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Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about five foot two. They wake up every day, know they'ree tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.
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If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.
Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
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The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.
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I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked brightness but it don't work, does it?
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You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
Normal is in the eyes of the beholder.
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
Whenever women are together for more than two days they talk about their periods.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
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Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.
Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.
I really believe in melody.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
July does not a November election make.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.
Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.
Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
I've left Bethlehem
and I feel free...
I've left the girl I was supposed to be
and some day I'll be born.
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