Appropriate Quotes
788 quotes by 701 authors
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Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people…
— T. Harv Eker
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In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;…
— Albert Einstein
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No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will…
— Ronald Fisher
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the…
— Albert Einstein
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When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made…
— Sam Zell
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The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate…
— Rachel Johnson
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I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
— Joan Rivers
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I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
— Ambrose Bierce
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline.…
— Eric Burns
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Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a…
— Donna J. Haraway
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'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes…
— Andrea O'Reilly
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A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.…
— Gilbert Ryle
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[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another…
— Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil…
— Gerald Holton
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It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on.…
— Jackie Huggins
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
— Hippocrates
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Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture,…
— Steven Clark Rockefeller
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