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“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.”

People Said Hard Facts Film Turns Millions Tvs Tomorrow Offers Program Accounts Dollars Series Lots Of Money Packages Million Dollars Hard Things Bank Accounts

Author:Roone Arledge

“The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.”

Turns Argument Accounts Merit Biology Impressed Contests Environmentalist

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.”

Turns Wise Circumstances Accounts

Book:Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections

Source: Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections

“It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.”

Thinking Kind Age Turns Universe Levels Information Strange Evolution Built Machines Accounts Insight All Kinds Quantum Mystical Leaks Amplify Mystical Experiences

Book:Paths to Otherwhere

Source: Paths to Otherwhere

“It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.”

Ifs World Writing May Art Stills Use Shows Eye Care Turns Passion Greater Mankind Safe Accounts Mirrors Discrimination Imitation Wickedness Representing

Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.”

Thinking Way Turns Culture Animal Moral Special Accounts Species Agents

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?”

Ifs Should Turns Church Atheism Creation Theory Accounts Harmony Positive Atheism Folly Mistaken Mosaics Falsity

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.”

Men Turns Opportunity Accounts Great Men

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“I got an E-Trade account. Turns out I can turn $1,000 into $420 in less than a week. Sure, I had to pay some fees.”

I Can Humor Funny Turns Pay Week Accounts Trade Fees

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.”

Moments Purpose Turns Accounts Golden Spares Earnest Fragments

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.”

“There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.”

Humans Two Turns Given Sin Return Accounts Driven Paradise Impatience Cardinals Deviate Nonchalance

Author:Franz Kafka

“It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.”

Two Different Turns Poor Cases Taken Imagine Perspective Reader Accounts Instance African American Reports Farmers Familiarity Terrain Preconceptions

Author:William Finnegan

“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?”

Inspirational Years Remember Turns Energy Worry Letting Go Waste Years Ago Accounts Work Out Stop Worrying Not Worrying

Author:Dale Carnegie

“Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.”

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.”

“With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.”

Turns Natural Results Business Half Balance Skills Direct Accounts Management Population Lifestyle Compare Budgets Accomplishment Badges Downturn

Author:Joe Staton

“I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.”

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”

“We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.”

Art War Country Use Faces Turns Natural Design Fit Mountain Advantage Accounts Army Guides Locals Forests Familiar March Art Of War Alliances Swamps Precipice Pitfalls Marshes

Book:The Complete Art of War

Source: The Complete Art of War

“At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.”

People World War Use Christian Purpose Turns Religious Clear Duty Elements Accounts Responsible Finals Conviction Take Time Troops

Book:Lincoln on War

Source: Lincoln on War

“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”

Happens Turns Chance Fate Accounts

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.”

Men Science Turns Activity Concepts Accounts Experiments Arise Observation Progressive

Author:James Bryant Conant

“Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.”

“The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.”

Whole Science Values Turns Knowledge Objects Accounts Observation Register Resemblance

Book:The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

“Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.”

Science Used Turns Term Learning Students Accounts Acquire Pale Tails Superficial Mock Consulting Pretender Eels Superficial Knowledge

Author:Alexander Pope

“Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that civilization is falling apart and the world we know is coming to an end. In that case, why no turn to religion and look forward to the Day of Judgment, ... [being] lifted into eternal bliss ... [and] watching the scoffers and disbelievers writhe forever in torment.”

“Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.”

“The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to the next by a logical string. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.”

Sometimes Facts Body Science Turns Next Huge Mass Logic Accounts Errors Logical Strings Sequence Elimination

Author:Lewis Thomas

“[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.”

Writing Mind Science Order Turns Accounts Dues Flying Contact Bridges Phrases Satisfying Misunderstanding Analogies Eliminating Chasms

Author:William Lawrence Bragg

“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.”

Knows World Giving Believe Philosophy Turns Language Views Clear Depends Gains Accounts Philosophical Structure Mediums Discovering Our Thoughts Turn-on Systematic Explicit Clear View

Author:Michael Dummett

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