Fields Quotes - Page 34

• Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Joy, Affliction

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• I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.

  Sitting Bull

  Coffee, Believe, Men

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 73), 1993.

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• Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

  Tony Greig

  Anger, Taken, Years

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun I generally bowl my best.

  Brett Lee

  Success, Friday, Morning

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• For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.

  David Gelernter

  Cutting, Reality, Years

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• For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Technology, Wish, Needs

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• Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Travel, Journey, Afterlife

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.228, Random House

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• Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

  Simon van der Meer

  Feelings, Able, Helping

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• I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.

  Isaac Cline

  Successful, Mind, Stories

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• For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

  Rudolf Hilferding

  Fighting, Economics, Blithe

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• The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling.

  Nat Fleischer

  Stars, Wrestling, College

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• When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Notebook, Two, Pockets

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• Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Art, Media

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• I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

  Edwin Moses

  College, Track, Track And Field

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• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

  David Whyte

  Ocean, Breathing, Feet

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• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  Lee De Forest

  Communication, Kitchen, Baking

  "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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• He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

  Lester Hayes

  Unique, Data, Nfl

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• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  Francis Atterbury

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  R. Murray Schafer

  Lying, Musician, Sound

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Johan was more than just a great soccer player. He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism.

  Roger Milla

  Equal, Everyone Is Equal

  "Shimon Peres Pays Tribute to Late Dutch Soccer Legend Johan Cruyff". www.haaretz.com. March 24, 2016.

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• When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.

  Maddox

  Football, Baby, Jobs

  "The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  Earl Weaver

  Littles, Matter, Middle

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