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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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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosA gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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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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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. ~Freddy Adu
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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He who lives without discipline dies without honour. ~Icelandic Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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