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Henry Van Dyke Quotes

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 10, 1852 - April 10, 1933

Topics

Live Best People Always Rivers Most

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

Space Moon Window Perception Look

The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.

Time Style Yourself People Detail

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

John Polkinghorne

Good Science People Ideas Try Out

The IAEA should be worried, as I am worried about it, because North Korea is now a nuclear power state with a ballistic missile program.

Power I Am Now Nuclear Power Because

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

People Group Oppression Something

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

Think Dry I Think Nanotechnology

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.

Intelligence Think Create Away Crowd

Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved.

Think Independence United Needs

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

Truth Food People Society Country

I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.

Day New York City Calm Thought New

Environmentalism has failed.

Failed Environmentalism

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

Christine Quinn

Life Time Personality Job I Am Done

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