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“When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.”

Matter Turns Serious Research Curiosity

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger”

Knows Doe Turns Know How Divine Serious Advantage Stronger Accidents Injury Remedy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”

World May Problem Seems Turns Rooms Views Study Serious Civilization Solutions Universal Institutions Finals Contempt Adoption World Problems Myopia

Author:George F. Kennan

“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.”

People Hard Stories Bigs Turns Energy Interest Mistake Serious Consequence Narrative Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Big Mistake

Author:Kelly Link

“Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.”

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Author:Pierre Charron

“If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.”

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Author:Ali MacGraw

“I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.”

Want Turns Social Issues Serious Profit Slips Social Issues Jane Schnitzel

Book:Hollywood Nocturnes

Source: Hollywood Nocturnes

“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.”

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings