- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
More Quotes
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
- Nov 07, 2020
The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
- Fellow Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
- Free Verse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020