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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Adaptation After Capacity Chain Could Events Experience Facts First Fuller Grouping Having His Links Longing Man Satisfied Sight Some Something Take Then Think Vast Wanted Which I Think

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By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

~Alfred Enoch

Topics: Artistic Because Been Birthday By The Time Dad Did Director Doing First Friends Globe Had Lead Me Season Seven Shakespeare Somehow Sonnet Theatre Time

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If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

~Alfred Hermann Fried

Topics: Anarchy Condition Disputes First International Justice Must Order Settlement Substitute War Wish

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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: All Things Character Class Comforts Common Consist Distinguish First First Class Including Latter Less Luxuries Meet Must Required Satisfied Things Urgent Wants Which While

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My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

~Alfred Molina

Topics: Actor Amount Anyone Basically Father First Found Got Half He Job Left Me Money Move Professional Stupid Think Waiter Would

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I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

~Alfred Molina

Topics: Actor Camera Doing First Like Off Okay Rehearsal Rehearsals Scene Takes Treat Treating Two Where Who Worked You

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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

~Alfred Nobel

Topics: Anvil Beginning Exploded Father First First Time Hammer In The Beginning Me Only Part Professor Saw Show Some Spreading Struck Time Touched War Without

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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Development First New Question Silly Some Totally

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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Almost Almost All Aspect Certain First Foolishness Ideas New New Ideas Produced

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Contradiction Defeat Evolution First First Step Formal Knowledge Logic Marks Progress Real Signal Step Toward Victory

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