We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~John Polkinghorne
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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