In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. ~German Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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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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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. ~Pierre Corneille
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. ~Alice Eve
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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