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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information. ↗

— John Pomfret

#difficult #get #hearts #information #more

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#body #certain #community #economic #features

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#before #born #concerned #family #far

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. ↗

— James K. Polk

#blessings #civil #devout #favored #humility

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. ↗

— Jack Weatherford

#leadership

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. ↗

— James K. Polk

#become #cease #close #heartily #i

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. ↗

— James K. Polk

#appeal #constitution #minorities #oppression #right

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#i #like #matter #mean #much

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bed #come #get #go #hollywood