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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