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Will Quotes
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Will,
57
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
56
"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
Will,
56
"For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more."
Will,
54
"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be."
Will,
53
"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."
Will,
53
"Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
Will,
52
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
Will,
51
"How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?"
49
"We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger."
Will,
49
"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
Will,
49
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town."
Will,
49
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
Will,
48
"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
Will,
48
"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
Will,
47
"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
46
"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us."
Will,
46
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
46
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
Will,
44
"If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction."
Will,
44
"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try."
Will,
44
"There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'"
Will,
43
"And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others."
Will,
43
"Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself."
Will,
43
"Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will."
Will,
43
"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases."
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