It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue.… — Elias Chacour Copy Share Image
“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Uh, what are you doing?” “Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
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For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century,… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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