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- Nov 07, 2020
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Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
- Eloquently
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
- Fervent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020