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Charles Babbage Quotes

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Charles Babbage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 26, 1791 - October 18, 1871

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Power Fall Weight Lifting Then Mode

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

Time People Think Way Hard Degree

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

Michael Douglas

You Early Want Cancer Get Thing

At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the inexpressible. When minds are taut with emotional entanglement, there seems to be an inner compulsive instinct to release and harness this tension through the measured vibrations in the air that we call music.

Women Music History Men Joy Moments

In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all.

Sad Art Happy Me Sweet Want

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Important Open-Minded Increasingly

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

Day Learn Every Day More Starting

When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to create... we're groomed to be reckless in the defense of what we feel is right.

Me Feel Tradition Create Right

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Love People Me Small Love Me You

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Action Movies Boring Why Years Made

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

Phoebe Robinson

Good Tough Decisions Unhappy Doing

I realized that my success comes from doing the things I love most.

Love Success Doing Things Most

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Marianne Williamson

Love Circumstances Little Attract

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