"I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention."

-- Gemma Ward

#Attention Quotes #Nine Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.”
“The current CEO of Wal-Mart says he has "no choice" but to sacrifice the welfare of his employees in order to serve his customers' need for low prices. So, why are they paying the guy millions a year if there is no possibility for him to change things? I think he is either kidding us or himself. The truth is more likely that he likes things the way they are, or he lacks the strategic imagination to come up with a viable and profitable ways to change them. If either is true, he is overpaid and probably not up to doing the job.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers
“I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.”
“No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.”
“Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.”
“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.”
“Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.”

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