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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
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Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. Seth MacFarlane
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A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. Stephen Jay Gould
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The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. Colin Wilson
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A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science. Claude Bernard
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Infuse your life with action... Bradley Whitford
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. Charles Bukowski
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. Don DeLillo
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The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie. Colleen Haskell
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When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more? Ray Kroc
waiting telephones rings
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. Tony Curtis
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Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things. Tony Evans
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I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens. Steve Martin
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When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting Bobby Darin
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You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. Charles Spurgeon
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Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death. Artie Lange
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. Anais Nin
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Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? Slavoj Zizek