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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
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I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
earth enough johannesburg
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
earth stage magnet
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth. Al Pacino
earth-day earth
There is no such place as away. Chief Seattle
earth beautiful-earth
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
earth radio
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio. Ed Bradley
earth soil portions
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil David Ricardo
earth rebel needs
The Earth needs rebels! David Icke
earthquakes looks survivor
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end. Bear Grylls
earth-day survival environmental
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. Barry Commoner
arguing ownership force
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership. Chris Chocola
arguing verify hard
I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify. David Hoffman
arguing brick car giant heading sit towards wall
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit David Suzuki
arguing color
We were arguing over the color of the frosting and we don't even have a cake. Bill Bryant
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I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.' Norm MacDonald
arguing certainty whether
What they're arguing about right now is whether there's enough evidence. There's never enough evidence. There's never certainty in medicine.
arguing figure gut instead
At a gut level, we know something's wrong. Instead of arguing about it, let's figure out what to do. James Carville
arguing case country foreign global handled learn majority operations port shocked vast wrong
This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem. Americans were shocked to learn that the vast majority of port operations in this country are handled by foreign firms. But transportation is a global network, and we're not going to own all of it.
arguing case wrong
This is a case where we were arguing about the wrong part of the problem.