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Kind Quotes by James Gleick
- Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified…
- As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can…
- When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd