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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.


Walter Jon Williams


#because #could #decided #different #field

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.


Charles Erwin Wilson


#company #country #did #difference #exist

I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not always widely accepted by the general audience, which is just a reality; a movie of a certain size, they don't want people to be too - it's a balance of how deep to keep going with these ideas.


Len Wiseman


#always #anything #audience #balance #certain

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.


John Witherspoon


#branches #character #either #executive #general

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.


Edward Witten


#before #century #describing #developed #elegant

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.


James Wolfe


#chief #dependence #few #france #fresh

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.


James Wolfe


#blood #bought #cheerfully #conquer #conquest

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.


Stephen Wolfram


#ago #basis #computers #describe #general

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.


Mao Zedong


#continuously #exercise #form #general #good

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.


Chauncey Wright


#assumption #become #concrete #direction #experience






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