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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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proverbiosI've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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