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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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. ~Joseph Addison
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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