The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of in the 'Protogaea' and of in his 'Théorie de la Terre;' the sober and profound reasonings of , in the latter...
It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society, and the diversion of men's thoughts from s...
The publication of the and papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect upon them of the flash of light, which to a man who has lost himself in a dark night, suddenly reveals a road which, whether it takes him straight ...
Do you realize,' Dr. Ramzi says, smiling broadly, 'when you speak of a political programme, that your programme now is the same that Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi's government tried to establish more than a hundred years ago?' 'Is that right?' Isabel says....
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
