Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

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Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
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EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

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The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
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I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
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GARY F EVANS...

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BILL NYE

Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
MARK HYMAN

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.

Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need....
WARREN ELLIS

Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER

If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's no...
JOEL OSTEEN

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
MAE WEST

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST

I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.
GAYLE FORMAN

Dying is easy. Living is hard
GAYLE FORMAN

I only need a second. So I can show her that I'm here. That someone's still here.
GAYLE FORMAN

If only…the saddest words in the English language.
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STEVE KRUG

If you love something, let it go.
If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basic...
B.J. NOVAK

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
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FRANK SANDOMENICO If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfe...
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE If you stay on your looks, you may end up loving or dumping a perfectly fantastic person without eve...
AULIQ ICE If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
ZIG ZIGLAR You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.
NEIL GAIMAN Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or m...
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JOE E. LEWIS If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but ...
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GAYLE FORMAN Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.
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GAYLE FORMAN But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way...
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
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CALVIN JOHNSON Most chick singers say 'If you hurt me, I'll die'...I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.
PAT BENATAR If there is a positive test available, this is the only way the IAAF can proceed,
ISTVAN GYULAI Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you...
PEACE PILGRIM There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you...
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AMITABH BACHCHAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But givi...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how t...
LIN YUTANG If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how t...
LYN YUTANG There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the apertu...
DR. CARL SAGAN The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is n...
WILLIAM BELL RILEY Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
ROBERT CARO We have a system that if you are accepted you stay and if you are rejected you stay.
KATRINE CAMILLERI You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
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TOM SHADYAC Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Defeat is not when you fall but if you stay fallen
KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD When you finish that section of the test, you can stay and review that area of the test only. Rememb...
BRENDA TAYLOR Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar.

If you can roar, roar for others.
M.L. SHANAHAN If you read the (draft) documents, you will see that there is lots of new information. The science i...
JUSTIN HAYES even if this is a mistake. it could only be right to be this wrong with you.
RUPI KAUR Always test yourself against your own past! This is a mind game! If you play this game well, only th...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.
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HAL DAVID In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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HAL DAVID We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames th...
HAL BOYLE Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...
HAL BORLAND I don't like to tell lies.
HAL ASHBY I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to los...
HAL ASHBY If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
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Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

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Hal Clement

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

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