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Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.


Serge Haroche


#atomic #clock #come #computer #contraction

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.


Oriana Fallaci


#arafat #ask #contradicts #even #every

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.


Frances Burney


#alike #another #catch #contract #countenance

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.


Brett Favre


#contract #honor #i #i always #maybe

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.


Jack Cade


#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.


Elia Kazan


#afterwards #contract #dinner #first #first thing

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.


Robert Collier


#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.


Winston Churchill


#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.


Karl Von Clausewitz


#even #false #intelligence #many #more

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.


John Bates Clark


#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience






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